RÉSUMÉ

Par définition, l’activité économique constitue un effort humain et social dévolu au bien-être collectif. Quand, parmi des bénéfices plus ou moins quantifiables, une telle activité cause du tort à autrui et génère des victimes, des stratégies sontdéveloppées pour tenter de restaurer la pureté et l’apparente immuabilité de ladéfinition proposée plus tôt. Cet article passe en revue un certain nombre deces stratégies, lesquelles favorisent la dissimulation, le gommage ou encore l’occultation achevée des victimes de crimes économiques.

ABSTRACT  

Economic initiative may cause benefits while simultaneously generating harm and victims. When victimisation is the outcome of economic enterprise, strategies of denial,concealment or erasure are put in place. This paper discusses a number of such strategies. Economic crime, here, is described as power crime, namely crime committed by actors such as states,corporations, financial institutions, and other similarly powerful organisations. These actors possess an exorbitantly exceeding amount of material and symbolic resources when compared to those possessed by their victims. The argument presented revolves around this excess of resources that determines the denial and, at times, the very disappearance of victims. The suggestion is also made that the lack of resources hampers and nullifies the claims of those who have been victimised.

 

MOTS-CLÉS

crime des puissants; victimes; participation; sociétés commerciales, "vies sans valeur" 

KEY WORDS

Power crime; victims; participation; corporation; valueless lives