Green Crime Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is green crime?
A branch of crimes that focus on crimes against the environment.
What is Zemiology?
The study of harms.
What is primary green crimes?
Directly harming the environment and its members. There are 4 main categories of primary green crime.
What are the 4 main categories of primary green crime?
- air pollution
- deforestation
- species decline
- animal rights.
What is secondary green crime?
A crime that arises out of disobeying rules that seek to regulate environmental disasters.
What is an example of secondary green crime?
State violence against environmental groups
What is the impact of globalisation on green crime?
Led to the increase of green crime as more corporations are trading items such as oil, wood, coal and gas.
What has the role of TNCs got to do with green crime?
They are major contributors to global green crime in order to meet their services.
The businesses drain resources from all around the planet and often engage in behaviours aimed at reducing costs which damage the environment.
What does Wolf say?
Points that ‘green crime’ is a term that is used to describe actions which break laws effecting the environment.
May differ from country to country.
What does White say?
The case for changing the definitions of crime to include anything that causes harm to a living thing or environment.
Green crime occurs because people take an anthropocentric view of the world.
What does Sunderland say?
Like other W.C.C - green crime does not carry much of a social stigma and less likely to be properly policed.
Large organisations have ways of working around law.
What does Potter say?
Points out that green crime increases existing social divisions, the poorest countries are the most likely to suffer from green crime.
What does Snider say?
State is often reluctant to pass laws which regulate big businesses as they bring so much employment and revenue into the country.
What does Beck say?
‘Global risk society’
Argues in the modern world, humans are having a much more profound impact on the planet through science and technology than was possible in the past.
What does Pearce say?
Talks about ‘crimes of the powerful’ - crimes committed by corporations in order to cut costs and max profits.
What does Santana say?
Found the military was the largest institutional polluter, causing huge damage through warfare - e.g. unexploded bombs, toxic chemicals
What does Box say?
Corporations move to developing countries to avoid the laws of developed nations.
What are the pairs in the studies?
Defining green crime - Wolf and White
Growth in crime - Santana and Beck
Policing - Snider and Sunderland
