Green/Environmental Crime

Question 1

green/environmental crime - definitions

Answer 1

illegal act directly harms the environment & violates environmental law
different definitions to whether they are illegal or not in different countries

Question 2

green/environmental crime - transgressive approach

Answer 2

white -
environmental justice approach:
environmental crime should be defined as any human that causes harm to anything within an environment

Question 3

green/environmental crime - bhopal

Answer 3

1984
union carbide (chemical company plant) liked poisonous gas
resulted in 25,000 deaths, 120,000 suffering people
traditional criminology approach - disaster stared because carbide broke health & safety laws
transgressive approach - carbide set up in india because of weak health & safety laws

Question 4

green/environmental crime - globalisation

Answer 4

effects in one country has consequences in others (fossil fuels affects climate change)
manufacturing operations avoid laws in developed countries by going to developing countries

Question 5

green/environmental crime - who commits crime

Answer 5

• normal individuals (littering)
• private business organisation (corporate crime)
• governments (nuclear power)
• organised crime (disposal of hazardous waste)

Question 6

green/environmental crime - victims of green crime

Answer 6

potter -

least powerful people

Question 7

green/environmental crime - environmental racism

Answer 7

environmental damage effects those from different ethnicities than from those causing the damage (white people)

Question 8

green/environmental crime - marxism

Answer 8

states strengthen and weaken laws to avoid threatening profits
governments create laws in collaborations with business that usually offenders

Question 9

green/environmental crime - street crime vs environmental crime

Answer 9

street crime has a stronger stigma and more attention

because the offended have the power/legal resources to avoid being labelled a criminal

Question 10

green/environmental crime -forming economic policies

Answer 10

first consideration is the well-being of the citizens and then the environment

Question 11

green/environmental crime - why is green crime committed?

Answer 11

because it pays

Question 12

green/environmental crime - crimes of the powerful

Answer 12

marxist -

most important because it increases profits by exploiting people in developing countries

Question 13

green/environmental crime - problems in researching

Answer 13

• unable to compare statistics as countries have different laws
• nations & researchers define green crime differently
• powerful people conceal their crimes to avoid prosecution, discovering extent of crime difficult

Question 14

green/environmental crime - global risk society

Answer 14

beck; potentially disastrous consequences for the global environment
in the past, environmental disasters were of natural origin and outside human control
now there are risks created by actions of humans through science/technology