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

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.