Eco Crime Flashcards
What words do the government use to take away the fact that it is a criminal act?
Precaution, liability and exceedence instead of ‘crime’
What does Eco crime look at?
Transgressions between humans, the environment and non-human animals
What does Walters (2010) reject the use of and why?
The government used term ‘environmental crime’ as it ignores the social, cultural and economic harms whereas the term ‘Eco crime’ goes beyond the legal definitions to include those harms
What does green criminology focus on and what are its key points?
It’s focus is on human and animal right and its key points involves harms and violation of rights within the ecological framework and prevention of environmental harms through the use of human rights.
What does primary harms include?
Air pollution, deforestation, water pollution and resource depletion
What does air pollution include?
The thinning of the ozone layer with increases uv radiation and a heightened risk of skin cancer. In the 80’s they established the Montreal protocol which legAlly binded the restriction of the chemicals that harmed the atmosphere.
What does deforestation include?
illegal logging which effects climate change and numbers of animals and species that would have lived In them.
What does water pollution include?
The clean water act 1987 introduced to stop toxins entering the water
What does resource depletion Include?
Trading of natural, rare and threatened species for example the illegal trading of alligators as pets or for their skin.
What are the three different perspectives that White 2008 introduced?
Species justice, Environmental justice and ecological justice.
What is species justice?
It’s about anti-discrimination and views that non humans have rights and intrinsic rights to be safe from abuse and humans have a duty of care.
What is environmental justice?
Sees that environmental rights are just an extension of the human right.
What is ecological justice?
Views that humans are just a part of a complex system which should be preserved for its own sake. And focuses on the destructive capabilities of humans.
What does Simon view?
That Eco crimes have become a standard procedure in some certain industries like dumping toxic waste in less developed counties. This not only increases risks of diseases but causes environmental racism by victimising non-White people.
Why can Somali pirates be used as an example of the consequences Eco crimes?
Because of the dumping of toxic waste in their country has deformed their fish caused them to loose their jobs and source of income whilst resulted in frustration and them holding ships for ransom.
