Fields of victimization: when crime generates crime

The harm caused by corporations affects specific groups of individuals and society as a whole. This type of harm is the object of interest of victimization studies, which typically depict interactions between offenders and those on the receiving end of their harmful conduct. Corporate harm, however, includes ‘spaces or fields’ of victimization that transcend the precise identification of those victimized. This paper focuses on some such fields, in which harm manifests itself in the intensification of poverty, the infliction of political disability, the reiteration of status quo legality, and the promotion of criminogenic crime.