After discussing the individual assessment of victims to identify specific protection needs (as defined and prescribed by art. 22 of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA), the chapter reviews the existing criminological and victimological literature on corporate violence, its harmful consequences and its impact on victims, matching it against the results of the empirical research conducted as part of the project ‘Victims and Corporations. Implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU for Victims of Corporate Crime and Corporate Violence’. The chapter specifically focuses on the needs of corporate violence victims, in view of a better implementation of the Directive with respect to this group of victims and their peculiar vulnerabilities.

Visconti, A., Corporate Violence: Harmful Consequences and Victims’ Needs. An Overview, in Forti, G., Mazzucato, C., Visconti, A., Giavazzi, S. (ed.), Victims and Corporations. Legal Challenges and Empirical Findings, Wolters Kluwer - CEDAM, Milano 2018: 149- 177 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/115379]

Corporate Violence: Harmful Consequences and Victims’ Needs. An Overview

Visconti, Arianna
2018

Abstract

After discussing the individual assessment of victims to identify specific protection needs (as defined and prescribed by art. 22 of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA), the chapter reviews the existing criminological and victimological literature on corporate violence, its harmful consequences and its impact on victims, matching it against the results of the empirical research conducted as part of the project ‘Victims and Corporations. Implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU for Victims of Corporate Crime and Corporate Violence’. The chapter specifically focuses on the needs of corporate violence victims, in view of a better implementation of the Directive with respect to this group of victims and their peculiar vulnerabilities.
2018
Inglese
Victims and Corporations. Legal Challenges and Empirical Findings
9788813365349
Wolters Kluwer - CEDAM
"An Overview of Criminological and Victimological Literature on Harms and Needs", in C. Mazzucato (ed.), "Victims and Corporations. Implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU for Victims of Corporate Crime and Corporate Violence. Rights of Victims, Challenges for Corporations. Project's First Findings", Milan, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2016
This is the final publication of the project "Victims and Corporations. Implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU for Victims of Corporate Crimes and Corporate Violence, funded by the programme “Justice” of the European Union (Agreement number - JUST/2014/JACC/AG/VICT/7417). This publication has been produced with the financial support of the programme “Justice”of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the contributors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission.
Visconti, A., Corporate Violence: Harmful Consequences and Victims’ Needs. An Overview, in Forti, G., Mazzucato, C., Visconti, A., Giavazzi, S. (ed.), Victims and Corporations. Legal Challenges and Empirical Findings, Wolters Kluwer - CEDAM, Milano 2018: 149- 177 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/115379]
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