Risk Management

In no way should saying, "this is why you were selected as a victim," be taken to absolve or mitigate the responsibility of the criminal for their actions.

Once the criminal has gotten to the victim selection portion of the event, they've already committed themselves to the commission of the crime.

Someone is going to be a victim and the best you can do is make yourself less enticing to them.

Sometimes there's nothing the victim can do to reduce their chances because the decision to commit the crime is tied to committing it on that person.  Stalking falls into this category.  The stalker doesn't start with "I'm going to stalk, oh... that random person there."  They back into a justification of stalking a particular person based on specious at best reasoning.  It's rarely the "at best" scenario.  Most of the time the rationale is bug-nuts.

It's a fine line to tread about "blaming the victim."  The blame and fault is entirely on the criminal for the crime.  It is not, however, unhealthy to ask, "what could I have done differently?"

If every girl walking home drunk from a bar through a bad neighborhood while wearing a slinky cocktail dress and heels gets raped; but not a single sober female jogger in sweats does...  There's a pattern to be aware of.