GREEN CRIME Flashcards
DEFINITIONS of GREEN CRIME:
TRADITIONAL:
SITU and EMMONS- environmental crime is ‘an omission that violates the law’. They look at PATTERNS and CAUSES OF LAW BREAKING. This definition DOES NOT consider GLOBAL WARMING as a CRIME, it does NOT BREAK ANY LAWS
TRANSGRESSIVE: looks at the notion of harm. Therefore, WHITE sees green crime as any action that harms the physical environment or humans, even if no laws were broken.
GLOBAL MANUFACTURED RISK:
BECK-
increase in technology creates NEW MANUFACTURED RISKS that HARM the environment and have consequences for humans eg. GREENHOUSES GASES produced by MANUFACTURING has led to GLOBAL WARMING
TYPES of GREEN CRIME:
SOUTH
PRIMARY: direct result of the destruction of the earth’s resources eg. air pollution, deforestation, extinction and animal abuse
SECONDARY: flouting rules that prevent environmental disasters eg. state violence against oppositional groups, hazardous waste, environmental discrimination
PERPETRATORS of GREEN CRIME:
INDIVIDUALS have a CUMULATIVE EFFECT on the the environment, may not have an immediate impact but overtime it will eg littering
BUSINESSES: environmental crime is a typical type of corporate crime; they are responsible for most of the WATER, AIR and LAND POLLUTION due to WASTE DUMPING and SAFETY BREACHES.
GOVERNMENTS: the MILITARY are the BIGGEST INSTITUATIONAL POLLUTERS (unexploded bombs and lasting effects of toxic chemicals)
VICTIMS of GREEN CRIME:
WOLF:
people in the DEVELOPING WORLD, POOR and ETHNIC MINORITIES are likely to be victims of ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME due to their INABILITY to MOVE FROM TOXIC DUMPING for example.
GREEN CRIME Is HARD TO POLICE
an act done in ONE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION and not be considered a crime but it affects ANOTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREA where it IS CONSIDERED a CRIME. It is also DIFFICLUT to IDENTIFY who is to BLAME.
EVALUATION
- difficult to study green crime and there is not a shared definition
- difficult to assess the impact of green crime as there might be long lasting effects.
