I disagree. We publish the full name of the victims, disclosing their privacy and the one of their families, but we don’t disclose the full name of the criminals.
> it's not dishonorable or shameful to be a victim of something.
That is not generally true. Or perhaps true in an idealised word, but in the real world many victims have a stigma attached to them.
Victims of scams are frequently seen as guilible or naive. I think if it were known that someone has been scammed before many would be hesitant to hire them in a postition of financial trust.
Similarly victims of rape are often portrayed in a bad light. People frequently question what did they do, or what did they wear such that what happened to them happened to them.
Female victims of domestic abuse are often portrayed as schemers who orchestrated false circumstances such that they can get their exes in trouble with the law. Male victims of domestic abuse are often portrayed as not manly enough to protect themselves.
Victims of workplace sexual harrasment are often portrayed as wrongdoers who just couldn’t keep their mouths shut. Someone who should just “took the compliment”, or perhaps be “less stuck up”. As if the real problem is that they reported what they reported as opposed to suffering it silently.
None of these attitudes are okay, but nevertheless they do exists. Being a victim of these specific crimes happens to be dishonorable and shamefull at least in some people’s eyes.
I guess it depends; see the recent case where apparently some old French lady was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of euro that she thought were being sent to Brad Pitt.