Victims of armed conflict and atrocities are now a crucial components of transitional justice efforts that are undertaken in conflict-affected countries. There is a widespread consensus in transitional justice literature on the centrality of victims. Having a victim-centred approach to transitional justice is supported and championed by many scholars, as well as the practitioners and policy-makers. However, it remains to be the case that the victim-centred approach is not effectively implemented in most of the efforts and there is a strong need for further research on how and by what means victims might actually be in the core of transitional justice efforts. This working paper examines the current state of literature on victims in transitional justice. Firstly, it explores where victims are situated by in transitional justice scholarship. Then, it investigates who the victims are and who is entitled to rights and benefits based on the victimhood status. Following that, the paper looks at how the victims are seen in the literature and in the mainstream transitional justice practices. It finally explores the complexities of victims and perpetrator categories.