Crime and deviance: Green Crime Flashcards
What is meant by the term ‘environmental racism’?
Suggests that the harm in the developing world due to pollution is racist as it comes across from western countries.
What is the transgressive approach?
The approach that crime should be measured on human harm and not necessarily by legal limitations of the state.
What did Santana, 2002, find out about the military as a polluter?
The they were the biggest institutional polluter. Through actions like nuclear and military waste.
What did Massari and Monzini argue?
Revealed collusion between mafia-type organizations, legal businesses and local authority in illegal hazardous waste disposal in Italy.
What is suggested through the term ‘smog is democratic’?
That regardless of nation state boundaries we are one ecosystem.
What is primary green crime?
Crime that results directly from destruction and degradation of Earth’s resources.
What is secondary green crime?
Crime that grows out of flouting rules aimed at preventing or regulating environmental disaster.
What approach do some sociologists believe we should employ when discussing green crime? What does it mean.
Transgressive approach.
Meaning that crime should be be always defined by rigid laws and boundaries but the measure of how much harm it causes.
What do white collar crime and green crime have in common?
Both types of people who commit the crimes are similar. They are both hidden by highly educated people.
What is illusive crime?
Criminal activity that is hard to detect.
Why do Marxists consider green crimes, crime of the powerful?
Because it people in positions of power who commit large scale felonies that include ecological harm. The main cause of it is the ideology of consumerism which drives the crime. Therefore the cause of this crime comes from capitalism.
What is meant by Beck’s ‘risk consciousness society’?
Particularly for the poor, globalisation has created a society who feel unstable. They don’t know where their next paycheck is coming from etc.
What does Wolf suggest a difficulty with investigating green crime is?
Suggests that case studies limit the use of explaining and making generalisations about the causes of green crimes.
What is a general AO3 point for the transgressive approach with crime?
Some argue we domain over the Earth and some green crime in beneficial for humans.
