Green Crime
- Created by: l.ni
- Created on: 12-06-13 19:26
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- Green Crime
- Traditional Marxism
- Manipulation of values can be illustrated by Union Carbide disaster and Chernobyl disaster
- Such events lead to the spread of airborne toxins which had terrible effects on health
- More recently the BP Deep Water Horizon explosion/oil spill can show how selective law enforcement fails to control environmentally damaging substances.
- Manipulation of values can be illustrated by Union Carbide disaster and Chernobyl disaster
- Green Criminology
- Whyte believes criminology should revolve around damage to humans or the environment rather than if a law is broken or not.
- Laws on green crime are different for different countries and means that they are situational crimes.
- The powerful ins society are able to define what a green crime is and isn't based on their own interests.
- States favour an anthropocentric view, this contrasts with the ecocentric view of green criminologists.
- + Recognises the growing harm being inflicted on the environment.
- Postmodernism
- Technological improvements leading to technical development has created "new manufacture risks"
- Industrial manufacturing may lead to pollution from factories but also increase effects of global warming.
- Links
- there are links between green crime and crimes of the powerful
- crime of the state and green crime are linked
- significant feature of global crime
- Traditional Marxism
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