Green Crime
- Created by: Harriet
- Created on: 07-06-13 11:27
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- Green Crime
- Global Risk Society and the Environment
- Beck-most threats to human well being and the eco-system are now human-made
- In late modern society, increase in production and technology has led to 'manufacturing risks' that harm the environment
- happening on a global scale
- In late modern society, increase in production and technology has led to 'manufacturing risks' that harm the environment
- Beck-most threats to human well being and the eco-system are now human-made
- Types of Green Crime
- Secondary Crimes
- involve the flouting of rules aimed at preventing or regulating environmental disasters
- Primary Crimes
- Results directly from the destruction and degrading of the earth's resouses
- South- 4 main causes= air pollution, deforestation, species decline and water pollution
- Secondary Crimes
- Green Criminology
- If pollution that caused global warming is legal. Is this a matter for criminology?
- Green Criminiology
- Starts from the notion of harm rather than the criminal law because...
- No universal law between states
- many of the worst environmental harms are not illegal
- Starts from the notion of harm rather than the criminal law because...
- Traditional Criminiology
- Only studies patterns and causes of law-breaking, so not concerned
- Green Criminiology
- If pollution that caused global warming is legal. Is this a matter for criminology?
- Evaluation
- By focusing on the much broader concept of harms rather than simply on legally defined crimes, it is hard to define the boundaries of its field of study clearly
- it is a matter of values and cannot be established objectively
- it recognises the growing importance of environmental issues and the need to address them
- By focusing on the much broader concept of harms rather than simply on legally defined crimes, it is hard to define the boundaries of its field of study clearly
- Global Risk Society and the Environment
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