This article studies the most visible and recognized victims of crime in the recent Uruguayan process. Based on the definition of a classification criterion for victims based on a “visibility scale,” the situations and representations of indirect victims of homicide and merchants and neighbors affected by property crimes are reconstructed. Some relevant dimensions (identity, trauma, emotional and material management, demands, etc.) are explored for each category of victims with the intention of understanding how the positions, dispositions and experiences make up a “moral economy” of the victims that projects them into a space of visibility and recognition, while reflecting more general issues about the tensions and fractures of a social order.
Keywords: Uruguay, Victims, Crimes, Visibility, Property.
