Green Crime and State Crime?

Question 1

What is Green crime?

Answer 1

refers to crimes committed against the environment

Question 2

What is the Two types of Green crime?

Answer 2

1)Traditional Green crime
2 Transgressive Green crime

Question 3

What is Traditional Green crime?

Answer 3

“an unauthorised act or omission that violates law”

Question 4

What is Transgressive Green crime?

Answer 4

Any action that harms the physical environment and the human and animals within it no law has been broken.
Zeminology-study of harm

Question 5

What is Primary Green crime?

Answer 5

Crimes that are the direct result of destruction of the earth resources e.g. Air pollutio

Question 6

What is Secondary Green crime?

Answer 6

Crimes that result out the flouting rules aimed at preventing or regulating environmental disasters e.g. organised crime,

Question 7

Green crime is increasingly seen as a form of global crime for two reasons?

Answer 7

Reason 1-The planet is a single ecosystem
Reason 2-Green crime is carried out by powerful interests,particularly transnational corporations

Question 8

Difficultly in policing Green crime?

Answer 8

1)Very few local or international laws governing the state of the environment
2)International laws are difficult to construct
3)Law that exist are shaped by powerful capitalists interests

Question 9

Green and Ward define state crime?

Answer 9

illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by or complicity of agencies to further state policies e.g. of state crime include:torture,genocide

Question 10

Why is State crime is hard to define?

Answer 10

-State often the ones creating the laws for us to follow
-Therefore has the power to avoid defining its own act as criminals e.g. persecution of Jewish people in 1930s-1940s permitted under rule of Nazi Germany

Question 11

What is Cohen Spiral of denial?

Answer 11

-“it didn’t happen”-often deny anything until produce evidence that did occur
-“it’s not how it looks”-next stage pretend that it didn’t happen
-“it had to be this way”-Final stage admit that the abuse occurred but justify it.To suggest it was the fault of victims

Question 12

Types of state crime:Economic Crimes

Answer 12

1)Official violations of health and safety laws-government knowingly allowed health and safety breaches in public services to save money e.g. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

2)Economic Policies which cause harm to the citizenry-Economic polices which the government knows will lead harm upon the citizens

Question 13

Types of state crime:Social and Cultural crimes?

Answer 13

1)Institutional Racism-Police force targeting certain groups in society
2)Destruction of native culture and heritage-Deliberate and conscious destruction of the or heritage of native groups e.g. Isis

Question 14

Types of states crime:Political crimes?

Answer 14

•Political corruption can take various forms but most common e.g. granting government contract in return for bribes, vote rigging
•Political censorship-government attempts to conceal information that the citizens receive by suppressing the news that public might receive

Question 15

There are two types of war crime?

Answer 15

1)Illegal wars e.g. wars not declared
2)Crime committed during war e.g. bombing civilians