Green Crime

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  • Created by: Sam
  • Created on: 06-11-14 09:44
Green crime is defined as...
Crime against the environment.
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'Society is a global risk society. An increase in technology generates manufactured risks that can harm the environment/cause global warming' - who argued this point?
Beck (1992)
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Traditional criminologists argue that an action is only a crime when...
A person has broken the law.
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Situ and Emmons (2000) define environmental crime as...
An unauthorised act that violates the law.
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Green criminology is different from traditional criminology, because...
Green takes a more radical approach.
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White (2008) has two views of harm:
Anthropocentric and Ecocentic
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The view that 'assumes that humans have the right to dominate nature for their own gains and that economic growth is put before the environment' is...
Anthropocentric
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The view that 'humans and the environment are interdependent, so they can hurt each other' is...
Ecocentric
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Who suggested the idea of primary and secondary environmental crimes?
South (2008)
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Green criminologists argue that the powerful view/define what is environmentally harmful, in order to benefit themselves. This viewpoint is similar to what other group of theorists?
Marxists
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'Society is a global risk society. An increase in technology generates manufactured risks that can harm the environment/cause global warming' - who argued this point?

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Beck (1992)

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Traditional criminologists argue that an action is only a crime when...

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Situ and Emmons (2000) define environmental crime as...

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Green criminology is different from traditional criminology, because...

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