Green crime Flashcards

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What is Green crime?

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  • Actions that break laws protecting the natural environment.
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Wolf, 2011

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  • Suggests adding non-crime environmental harm to green crime.
  • Every country has different laws so we should agree that all harm is bad.
  • Transgressive postmodernist- ‘harms’
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Transgressive approach

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  • Disagreed with objective definitions and focused on subjective experiences.
  • People are now more human centered so they’re happy to sacrifice the environment.
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Global risk society (1992)

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  • Beck suggest that most environmental disasters were natural in the past however they’re now increasingly resulting from human activity. This contributes to a ‘global risk society.’
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The Deepwater Horizon incident, 2010 (BP oil spill)

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  • Explosion of oil rig.
  • Damaging wildlife and fishing industries
  • Company avoided responsibility and relied on government funded clean up teams.
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Who do transgressive sociologists blame for green crime? (Wolf)

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  • Individuals
  • Private businesses and organisations
  • States and governments
  • Organised crime
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Potter, 2010

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  • Some are disproportionately affected by green crime such as the working class and ethnic minorities.
  • They suffer ‘environmental racism’, where ethnic minorities are forces to live in environmentally damaged areas as ‘cheap labour’.
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Who is responsible for the enforcement action on green crime?

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  • Marxists- Governments don’t do enough because they’re financially supported by businesses committing crimes.
  • In Western countries punishments from courts are more lenient.
  • In the UK, the environment agency is responsible for sanctions.
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Problems with researching green crime

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  • Different laws in different countries
  • Different definition
  • Measurement issues
  • Reliance on case studies
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