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Environmental crime
About: Environmental crime is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 624 publications have been published within this topic receiving 7225 citations.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the key contributions to environmental criminology to comprehensively define the field and synthesize the concepts and ideas surrounding environmental crime and crime analysis are discussed. And each chapter will analyze one of the twelve major elements of environmental crime in crime analysis.
Abstract: Environmental criminology is a generic label that covers a range of overlapping perspectives. At the core, the various strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful analyses of these environmental influences are the key to the effective investigation, control and prevention of crime. Environmental Crime and Crime Analysis brings together for the first time the key contributions to environmental criminology to comprehensively define the field and synthesize the concepts and ideas surrounding environmental criminology. The chapters are written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field. Each chapter will analyze one of the twelve major elements of environmental criminology and crime analysis. This book will be essential reading for both practitioners and undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in this subject.
355 citations
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03 Jun 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the key concerns, concepts and conundrums of environmental or green criminology and explore and to question, to initiate and to summarise, to provoke and to stimulate.
Abstract: Environmental issues dominate media headlines today and are
forcing many people to re-evaluate their day-to-day practices as
citizens, as workers, as parents and as members of communities. So,
too, concern about the environment is now starting to have greater
resonance within the criminal justice field, albeit in a still fairly
modest fashion. Within this context of social and professional concern
about environmental matters we have also seen in recent years the
emergence of a distinctly 'green' criminology. The aim of this book is to consider the key concerns, concepts and
conundrums of environmental or green criminology. The intention is
to explore and to question, to initiate and to summarise, to provoke
and to stimulate. The book as a whole is meant to develop further
this particular approach to criminological study. The book is based on work undertaken specifically on environmental
crime over the last fifteen years or so. It incorporates current research
and scholarship that spans diverse disciplines and fields. It is also
based on an appreciation that there are pressing issues that ought to
be of more central concern to criminologists. Hence the book offers
something 'old', something 'new', and a guide to that which still
requires critical scrutiny and practical action. The book deals with specific issues that pertain to the nature of
and responses to environmental harm. These particular crimes against
nature include a wide variety of transgressions against humans,
against environments, and against nonhuman animals. The book also
deals with broad agendas, in the sense of trying to apply and generate
conceptual understandings of harm, victimisation, law enforcement
and social regulation that are relevant for a criminological approach
to environmental issues. The combination of, and dialectic between,
practical example and theoretical conceptualisation is essential to
mapping out the terrain occupied by green criminology.
231 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework, called conservation criminology, is proposed to advance current discussions of green crime via the integration of criminologies with natural resource disciplines and risk and decision sciences and the implications of the framework for criminological and general research on environmental crime and risks.
Abstract: Environmental crimes, noncompliance and risks create significant harm to the health of humans and the natural world. Yet, the field of criminology has historically shown relatively little interest in the topic. The emergence of environmental or green criminology over the past decade marks a shift in this trend, but attempts to define a unique area of study have been extensively criticized. In the following paper, we offer a conceptual framework, called conservation criminology, designed to advance current discussions of green crime via the integration of criminology with natural resource disciplines and risk and decision sciences. Implications of the framework for criminological and general research on environmental crime and risks are discussed.
186 citations
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01 Jun 2001
TL;DR: The problems of estimating the vast extent of white-collar and corporate crime are explored, and some of its major forms are outlined, including fraud, corruption, employment, consumer and environmental crime as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This comprehensive overview of white collar crime begins by introducing the concept, looking at its definition, its identification with class and status, and its development within criminology. The problems of estimating the vast extent of white collar and corporate crime are explored, and some of its major forms are outlined, including fraud, corruption, employment, consumer and environmental crime.
164 citations
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03 Nov 2010
TL;DR: In this article, Eco-global criminology is applied to the problem of environmental crime in the context of international criminal justice, and the authors propose a set of strategies to solve the problem.
Abstract: 1. Transnational Environmental Crime 2. Eco-global Criminology 3. Climate Change 4. Biodiversity 5. Waste and Pollution 6. Perpetrators 7. Environmental Victims 8. Criminal Justice Responses 9. Transnational Activism
159 citations