Green crime Flashcards
1
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What is Green crime?
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- Actions that break laws protecting the natural environment.
2
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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’
3
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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.
4
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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.’
5
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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.
6
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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
7
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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’.
8
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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.
9
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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
