Except as otherwise provided by the general statutes, "victim of crime" or "crime victim" means an individual who suffers direct or threatened physical, emotional or financial harm as a result of a crime and includes immediate family members of a minor, incompetent individual or homicide victim and a person designated by a homicide victim in accordance with section 1-56r.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 1-1k
( P.A. 97-257, S. 6, 13; P.A. 02-105, S. 11.)