Analyse the ways in which green crime can be defined.
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- Analyse the ways in which green crime can be defined.
- =Crime against the environment
- Globalisation
- e.g. pollution in one part of planet => acid rain in another part= poisons watercourses + destroys forests.
- e.g. Chernobyl (Ukraine (1986) => spread of radioactive material over thousands of miles.
- Green Criminology
- e.g. Bhopal Disaster = wider view = advatages of placing plant in area with little health + safety/ environmental legislation=> 6 million MORE mercury found in groundwater= NEVER cleaned up
- Marxism
- capitalist class= define crime => own acts NOT criminalised + Green criminologists = states + transnational corporations define in own interests what is unacceptable environmental harm.
- Ecocentric
- Humans + environment = interdependent e.g. both liable to exploitation by global capitalism
- CRITICISM
- - Broader view = difficult to define boundaries of field of study + moral/ political statements about which actions= wrong => matter of values + NOT objective.
- Traditional Criminology
- NOT concerned with green crime = NO law broken
- CRITICISM
- Definitions of environmental crimes accepted= shaped by powerful groups to serve own interests.
- e.g BHOPAL DISASTER= focuses on breaches of safety legislation + failure to follow maintenance procedures => 6 safety systems failed => 30 tonnes of gas spreading through city.
- Anthropocentric
- Economic growth before environment= humans have right to control nature for own needs.
- Transgressive Criminology
- = oversteps boundaries of traditional criminology to include new issues.
- Types
- PRIMARY
- Air pollution
- Deforestation
- Species decline + animal abuse
- Water Pollution
- SECONDARY
- State violence against oppositional groups (e.g. Greenpeace).
- Hazardous waste + organised crime
- BRIDGELAND (2006)
- Environmental Discrimination
- SOUTH (2014)
- PRIMARY
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