Restorative responses to the victims of corporate crime: a comparative study

The development of the corporates presence in the human social life of the twenticth century has led to the expansion of the criminal aspects of this presence. Corporate criminal and offenses are emerging from the needs of the victims, offenders and community, which are not effectively resolved through traditional criminal justice systems responses and interventions.One of the most important needs associated with corporate crimes is the compensation of somewhat widespread harm caused by corporate criminal behaviors. Problems such as the multiplicity of the victims, the existence of indeterminate losses, the existence of unknowing victims of victimization,the victimization of the state, the high percentage of secondary victimization, because of the power and ability of corporates to escape accountability has led traditional criminal justice processes to compensate for the corporate crimes No be successful. In this descriptive-analytic method, this paper exmine the challenges of traditional and generally retributive approach in response to the needs of the victims and using the experience of countries such as Australia and Canada in adapting to the restorative approaches in this area, the capabilities of the paradigm of restorative justice are responding ,to the damage caused by corporate crimes.Based on the finding of the present paper,restorative responses can resolve the various concerns of the criminal justice system in responding to the needs of the victim and compensate for them.