Green Crime

Question 1

biopiracy

Answer 1

when companies illegally take control of plants/aniamls/rsources being used by indegeous people. often resulting in loss of lives/culture

e.g nestle river poisoning in India

Question 2

Green crime and capitalism

Answer 2

Hesley and Whyte
disagree and argue crime is caused by the dominant ideology of capitalism:
1. biopiracy
2. corporate engineering

Question 3

examples

Answer 3

deforestation
cars
oil spills
littering/not recycling

Question 4

Situ and Emmons 2000

Answer 4

define environmental crime as “an unauthorised act or ommison that voilates the law”

the law changes from one country to another, so the definition of ‘green crime’ also changes

Question 5

Beck risk society and manufactured risks

Answer 5

argues there has always bee risks in life from external forces, e.g earthquakes, draughts
in modern society there are now manufactured risks that humans produce themselves through pollution, new illnesses and crime
e.g oil spills

Question 6

Rob White

Answer 6

believes green crime should be defined as:
‘any action that harms the physical environment and an creatures that live within it, even if no law has technically been broken’

• subjective
• no social control on green crime

Question 7

Corporate engineering of nature

Answer 7

this undermines sustainability and diversity bringing har to local populations
e.g gm crops, dams, mining, fracking

Question 8

Primary green crime

Answer 8

crimes that result directly from the destruction and degradation of earths resources
e.g mining, landfill

Question 9

Secondary green crime

Answer 9

when people do not directly commit a crime but go against their own policies,

e.g not recycling, over population, pollution allowances

Question 10

AO3

Answer 10

functionalist–> inevitable, boundary matenince, importance of protecting environment
marxist–> capitalism, rational choice theory
cannot force punishment on state as they enforce it