Green, Environmental and Eco-Crime
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- Created on: 28-12-17 09:49
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- Green Environment and Eco-crime
- South
- He argues some actions that are legal should be seen as environmental crime as well as those that are illegal
- This is seen through 2 frameworks; Primary and Law breaking environmental crimes
- Primary environmental crime
- Crimes that are currently legal under international law
- Because of the extent of the environmental damage they are called 'enviromentalissues'
- These include issues like...
- Air and Water pollution
- Deforestation
- Species decline
- Crimes that are currently legal under international law
- Environmental law breaking
- Actions that are already illegal under international laws but the laws may not be enforced
- These included issues like...
- Dumping of hazardous
- The dumping of toxic waste/rubbish in the ivory coast
- Unauthorised pollution through discharge of wastes
- Dumping of hazardous
- These included issues like...
- Actions that are already illegal under international laws but the laws may not be enforced
- He argues some actions that are legal should be seen as environmental crime as well as those that are illegal
- Global Risk Society
- Beck
- We now live in a 'Global Risk Society where human-made threats include massive environmental damage
- Green criminology is crime that damages the environment.
- State crimes include genocide, war crimes and torture.
- The state has the power to commit massive human right abuses
- Traditional Criminology
- Situ and Emmons
- An environment crime is an unauthorised act or omissions that violates the law
- It looks at the patterns and causes of law-breaking.
- If an issue such as pollution is legal then criminology shouldn't get involved
- With a clear subject matter
- Situ and Emmons
- Contemporary Criminology
- Takes the idea of harm rather than criminal law
- As laws differ from country to country
- It is transgressive as it oversteps the boundaries of traditional criminology to new issues
- White
- criminology is anything that causes physical harm to the environment and/or the human and non-human inhabitants, even if no law is broken.
- Takes the idea of harm rather than criminal law
- Views on Harm
- Anthropocent
- humans have a right to dominate the environment, and put economic growth before the environment
- Nation state and TNC
- Adopted the Anthropocentric/ human-centred view of enviromental harm
- Eco-centric
- humans and the environment are independent so the environmental harm hurts humans too
- Humans and environment are liable to exploitation particularly by capitalism
- Anthropocent
- Primary & secondary green Crimes
- Primary
- Air pollution
- Decline in species and animal rights
- Water pollutions
- Deforestation
- Secondary
- Crimes that come out of conflict between humans and the environment
- Although not defined as the harm to the environment
- Roles of smuggling hazardous waste
- roles of the state and police in policing of environmental activism/ protest
- Crimes that come out of conflict between humans and the environment
- Primary
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