Green Crime
- Created by: joy.yuma
- Created on: 10-04-18 12:22
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- Beck - late modern society = 'global risk society'
Increase in productivity and technology have created 'manufactured risks'
Criminology:
Traditional criminology
- Investigates the patterns and causes of law breaking.
- Looks at national and international laws and regulations concerning the environment.
Advantage = clearly defined subject matter
criticised for accepting official definitions of environmental problems and crimes which are usually shaped by powerful groups to serve their own interests
Green criminology
- Starts from the notion of harm rather than criminal law
- White (2008) - any action that harms the physical…
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