Globalisation and crime - Green and state crimes
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 10-06-22 10:51
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- Green and state crime
- Definitions of green crime
- Secondary - crimes against the environment which result from breaking Or ignoring legislation
- Shipping nuclear waste to third world countries and causing damage there
- Dumping in the ocean
- Rainbow Warrior (Greenpeace ship) was destroyed while protesting
- Primary - crimes directly committed against the environment which cause harm
- Air pollution
- Deforestation
- Species decline and animal abuse
- Water pollution
- Secondary - crimes against the environment which result from breaking Or ignoring legislation
- Ways in which we can define green crime
- Harms, zemiology and green criminology
- Green crime should be defined as an act against the environment regardless of whether there is law to prevent it or not
- Ecocentric view - environment has dominance over humans
- International law and traditional criminology
- Green crime should be defined simply as a crime which breaches law to protect the environment
- Anthropocentric view - humans can dominate
- Harms, zemiology and green criminology
- Definitions of state crime
- State-facilitated corporate crime: state does not prevent this crime occurring
- E.g Deepwater Horizon Oil spill
- State-initiated corporate crime : the government directs this crime to occur
- E.g Salisbury poisoning
- War crimes : acts carried out during war or conflict which go against the international rules of war
- E.g My Lai
- State-facilitated corporate crime: state does not prevent this crime occurring
- Ways which we can define state crime
- International law - state crimes are those which break international treaties such as the Geneva convention
- Social harms and zemiology - state crimes are those which are legally permissible but have similar consequences to illegal acts in terms of harm caused
- Breach of human rights - state crimes are those which violate basic human rights systematically via the state
- Imperialism
- Racism
- Sexism
- Economic exploitation
- Why does state crime occur?
- Authoritarian personality (Adorno)
- State crimes become possible when a large group of people share the authoritarian personality
- A personality type characterised by absolute obedience to authority
- Modernity (Bauman)
- Division of labour - singular responsibility foe ones task
- Bureaucratisation - normalisation of role; dehumanisation of victims
- Instrumental rationality - rational methods used to achieve a goal
- Science and technology - extremely important in the committing of state crimes
- Authoritarian personality (Adorno)
- Definitions of green crime
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