Green crime

Question 1

anthropocentric green crime

Answer 1

harm to the environment from the perspective of humanity

Question 2

primary green crime

Answer 2

a crime that directly harms the environment and its promises

Question 3

ecocentric green crime

Answer 3

any harm inflicted on the government even if it doesn’t directly affect humans

Question 4

give 2 reasons why green crime is hard to police

Answer 4

transnational nature
long-term impact

Question 5

which sociologist is associated with primary and secondary crime?

Answer 5

nigel south

Question 6

zemiology

Answer 6

study of social harms

Question 7

example of secondary green crime

Answer 7

state violence against environmental groups

Question 8

Transgressive

Answer 8

looking at the wider definitions of crime such as the harm that the crimes cause not just the breaking of state laws

Question 9

Globalisation links to Green Crime

Answer 9

environmental crimes are global crimes and a crime in one geographical location can have knock on effects across the planet

Question 10

Green crime is hard to police because

Answer 10

an act can be done in one geographical location and not be a crime but have an effect on another geographical area where the act is a crime

Question 11

Traditional Criminology
(Situ and Emmons)

Answer 11

‘unauthorised act or omission that violates the law of a state or nation’

• looks at patterns and causes of law breaking

Question 12

Transgressive Criminology
(Whie)

Answer 12

• looks more at the harm that certain acts cause in order to determine criminality
• White = argues that green crime is any action that harms the physical environment

Question 13

Global and Manufactured Risk
(Beck)

Answer 13

argues that in todays society we can now provide resources for all in the developing world and yet the increase in technology creates new manufactured risks which cause harm to the environment

Question 14

Primary Green Crime
(Nigel South)

Answer 14

Crimes that are the direct result of destruction and degradation of the earths resources

Examples = air pollution, deforestation, water pollution

Question 15

Secondary Green Crime
(Nigel South)

Answer 15

Crimes that result out of the flouting of rules aimed at preventing or regulating environmental disasters

Examples = state violence against environmental groups, hazardous waste and organised crime

Question 16

Victims of Green Crime
(Wolf)

Answer 16

those in the developing world, poor and EM due to inability to move from the areas where toxic dumping takes place

Question 17

Perpetrators of Green Crime
Individuals
(Wolf)

Answer 17

have a cumulative effect on the environment, their acts may not have immediate impacts but soon add up to large impacts

Question 18

Perpetrators of Green Crime
Organised Crime
(Wolf)

Answer 18

has a longstanding relationship with green crime often in collusion with the govs and industry through contracts for waste disposal

Question 19

Evaluation

Answer 19

• very difficult to study green crime as there is not an agreed definition
• difficult to assess the impact of green crime as it can be a long term impact
• much of the research is based on case studies