Green crime Flashcards

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What are environmental and green crimes?

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Crimes that damage the environment

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Examples of green crime

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Illegal dumping of waste, littering, picking protective wildflowers

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Who are Green crimes committed by?

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People, businesses and government

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Individual green crime

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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.

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Government, green crime, what is it

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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.

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What is the Chernobyl disaster?

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1986 nuclear disaster when a Russian nuclear power station exploded

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7
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What is whaling

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Has led to 5 of the 13 species of whale, becoming in danger.

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What type of waste is the disposal of toxic waste from the chemical, nuclear and other industries?

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Hazardous 

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9
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Reece Walters

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The ocean floor has been a radioactive rubbish dump for years

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fred bridgland

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Describe her after A tsunami of 2000 and 100s of radioactive waste was illegally, dumped and washed up on the shores of Somalia.

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What does a legal waste disposal illustrate with the problem of law-enforcement?

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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

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Evaluation of green criminology

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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.

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trad criminology view

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It has not been concerned with such behaviour. The starting point this approach is a national and international laws and regulations concerning the environment.

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global risk society & beck

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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

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situ & emmons

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Define environmental crime as an unauthorised act or omission that violates the law

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situ & emmons adv

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It has clearly defined subject matter

17
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situ & emmons disadvantage

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It is criticised for accepting official definitions of environmental problems and crimes

18
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Green criminology, take some more radical approach (rob white)

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Argues the proper subjective criminology is any action that harms a physical environment or human and non-human animals. The subject matter of green criminology is much wider than the subject of traditional criminology. It overstepped the boundaries to include new issues.

19
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bhopal

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In India, it started leaking, cyanide gas.

20
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Crime Environmental, in different countries

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Different countries have different laws, so that the same Home for action may be a crime in one country, but not in another .

21
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This approach it, like the markers for your crimes of the powerful, how

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Marxist argue that the capitalist class are able to shut the law and define crimes that they own exploitative actions are not criminalised.

22
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There are two views of harm. (White). This view assumes that humans have a right to dominate nature for their own ends, and put economic growth before the environment. What are the two point

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What rights to animals have on the physical environment,
Do humans have more rights and animals and the environment if so, what are they? 

23
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whats zemiology

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And approach within criminology the argues that national or international laws are in adequate for touching without action, should be regarded as criminal. Because laws reflect and narrow interests are powerful, rather than those of wider group.

24
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What is a late modern society?

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Has moved beyond the modern era – based on rational action, secularisation, class, divisions, and the dominance of nation states – but has not yet changed efficiently to post- modern

25
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bp oil spill

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Damage to the environment. No one was prosecuted.

26
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fracking

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Is controversial way of drilling for gas

27
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fuckushima

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A nuclear Power plant explosion in Japan, where 50,000 houses remain evacuated. This is similar to Chernobyl.

28
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What is a primary green crime?

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It damages the environment, such as deforestation and Chernobyl
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29
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What’s a secondary green crime?

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A crime such as blocking the road to protest against car usage