Crime Flashcards
What is traditional criminology?
Not concerned with environmental problems which are legal eg/legal pollution causing global warming
SITU&EMMONS define envrio crime as “unauthorised act/omission which violates law” so only offences damaging enviro&breaking laws would be focus on analysis
Advantage of this approach to criminology=has defined subject matter but critcised for accepting official definitions of enviro problems&crimes, often shaped by powerful groups to serve own interests
What is green/environmental crime?
Extends def of whats seen as criminal beyind convetioal law breaking&very relevant in postmodern world eg/much green crime like climate change linked to globalisation&interconnectedness of societies-threats increasingly global rather than local
More radical approach starting from notion of harm raher than criminal law aka Zemiology which sees actions which harm animals&plants&enviro as form of crimina actuvity whether/not illegal=much wider than traditional ciinology&is form of transgressive criminology as it transgresses boundaries of traditional ciriminology including new issues eg/harms
BECK argues we’ve entered risk society-tch developments have reduced scaracty of goods so can now provide adequat resources for all but massive increase in procductivity&tech sustaining it has created new manufactured risks (not faced before=damage to enviro increasing rik of humna ma disasters rather than natural, so late modern society=global risk society
