Green crime Flashcards
What are environmental and green crimes?
Crimes that damage the environment
Examples of green crime
Illegal dumping of waste, littering, picking protective wildflowers
Who are Green crimes committed by?
People, businesses and government
Individual green crime
People are not consider themselves criminal. Such as throwing rubbish from cars. Only recently have people found it a bad thing. Due to concerns of global warming. More unusual Green crimes are shooting birds.
Government, green crime, what is it
Countries with nuclear power stations and weapons and how to dispose them. Some charities say that nuclear power is never going to be environmentally friendly and that the UK government should invest more in green energy, such as wind and solar and water.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
1986 nuclear disaster when a Russian nuclear power station exploded
What is whaling
Has led to 5 of the 13 species of whale, becoming in danger.
What type of waste is the disposal of toxic waste from the chemical, nuclear and other industries?
Hazardous 
Reece Walters
The ocean floor has been a radioactive rubbish dump for years
fred bridgland
Describe her after A tsunami of 2000 and 100s of radioactive waste was illegally, dumped and washed up on the shores of Somalia.
What does a legal waste disposal illustrate with the problem of law-enforcement?
The very existence of laws to regulate waste disposal pushes of the costs the business and creates an incentive to dump illegally in Third World countries
Evaluation of green criminology
Both strengths and weaknesses come from global environmental concerns. It recognises the growing Importance of environmental issues. However, it is hard to define the boundaries of its field of study. Clearly, defining these boundaries involves making moral or political statement about which should be seen as wrong.
trad criminology view
It has not been concerned with such behaviour. The starting point this approach is a national and international laws and regulations concerning the environment.
global risk society & beck
Unlike the national disasters of the past, the major risks That we face today Our own, making.
Beck argues in today’s society we can now produce adequate resources for all. However, there is an increase in manufactured risks. These involve harm to the environment
situ & emmons
Define environmental crime as an unauthorised act or omission that violates the law