green crime

Question 1

green crime

Answer 1

crime done to the environment, including to non human animals

Question 2

points

Answer 2

transgressive appproach
anthropocentric approach
global risk society and environment
secondary green

Question 3

transgressive approach

Answer 3

going beyond legal definition to look at causes of crime
WHITE traditional criminology concerend with studying acts that break well defined laws
radical approaches argue approach is outdated and needs to be widened to study newer issues
criminology should study any action that cause harm either to individuals or environment regardless of whether law has been broken
important as considerable amont of harm doen to environment by actions that dont seem to break laws eg deforestation or disposition of toxic wastes
similar to marxist crimes of the powerful, states use their power to define what counts as environmental harm within their interest

Question 4

transgressive AO3

Answer 4

difficult to define green crime if not measured as an act that breaks the law- too wide of a scope of a definition, subjective

Question 5

anthropocentric approach

Answer 5

groups like TNCs take human centred view of environmental harm
humans have a right to dominate nature, economic growth before environment
for example, felling of amazon rainforest to build a road for the climate convention wouldnt be classed as a green crime as it was done in benefit of humans, more important than nature, eg poaching

Question 7

anthropocentric AO3

Answer 7

ecocentric view- humans and environment are interdependent, environment harm hurts humans too
destruction of forests are green crime, unlike anthropocentirc which justifies in name of human benefit
humans and nature should be working together

Question 8

global risk society

Answer 8

beck most threats to human wellbeing and ecosystem are human made rather than natural disasters
late modern society, massive increase in productivity produces manufactured risks
risks increasingly on global scale
beck describes as modern risk society
eg global warming due to rise in science (weapons of mass destruction, nuclear war) cause pollution

Question 9

beck global risk society AO3

Answer 9

functionalists would argue that this is positive for economy, can act as deterrent in order to prevent mass destruction