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1
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what are manufactured risks?

A

man made risks which we have never faced before, e.g global warming

2
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What form of criminology defines environmental crime as anything that violates the law?

A

Traditional criminology

3
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what type of criminology believes green crime should focus on any action that harms the environment, even if it isn’t illegal?

A

Green criminology/transgressive criminology

4
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Who argues that green criminology should ‘focus on any action that harms the physical environment or the animals within it (human and non human) even if it is not illegal’?

A

White (2008)

5
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White claims that there are two ways of looking at crime, what are they?

A
  1. Anthropocentric

2. Ecocentric

6
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What is the anthropocentric way of looking at crime?

A

A human centred way that values economic growth

7
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What is the ecocentric way of looking at crime?

A

A way that sees humans and the environment as interdependent. The environment should be protected in its own right.

8
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Who categorises green crime into primary and secondary crimes?

A

South

9
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What is primary green crime?

A

Crimes that directly harm the environment and are linked to the destruction of the earths resources

10
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What is secondary green crime?

A

Crimes committed as a result of people trying to avoid environmental laws, or the extra crimes that breaking environmental laws create