'Victims and Corporations': una breve introduzione

This brief article aims at introducing the reader to the contents and topics of the current Focus and, more broadly, to the results of the international research and training project on ‘Victims and Corporations. Implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU for victims of corporate crimes and corporate violence’, whence the debate here reported originates. Through a complex theoretical and empirical research in three European countries (Italy, Belgium, and Germany), which saw the involvement of corporate violence victims, representatives of law enforcement agencies and lawyers, experts and professionals in the fields of victim support service and restorative justice, the Project aims at contributing to an actual and effective implementation of the so-called ‘Victims Directive’, with a specific focus on a too often forgotten and invisible, albeit very numerous, typology of crime victims, i.e. the victims of corporate crime and corporate violence, who face specific and serious vulnerability issues.