RT Article
T1 Environmental crime and green criminology in South Eastern Europe - practice and research
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 59
IS 3
SP 341
OP 358
A1 Eman, Katja 1982-
A1 Meško, Gorazd 1965-
A1 Dobovšek, Bojan 1962-
A1 Sotlar, Andrej 1967-
A2 Meško, Gorazd 1965-
A2 Dobovšek, Bojan 1962-
A2 Sotlar, Andrej 1967-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854253808
AB All contemporary societies are facing environmental crime as one among many modern threats to the environment and human / animal life and this is due to the unlimited exploitation of natural resources and pollution. The aim of the present paper is to describe different responses to environmental crime and the development of green criminology in South Eastern Europe. In this region environmental crime occurs under the influence of social conditions and circumstances in which the environment is used as a source of resources for survival, as well as economic factors which mean the environment is used as a resource for profit. For countries in South Eastern Europe it is typical that environmental criminals change their modus operandi and adapt to new socio-economic circumstances, use different loopholes in legislation and exploit gaps in infrastructure and enforcement leading to committing environmental offences without being processed and punished. In many countries of South Eastern Europe green criminology is still in its nascent stages but is focusing on similar obstacles and challenges to those identified elsewhere, such as multi-disciplinarity, cooperation with the natural sciences, and responding to particularities in the region, such as pollution of marine and coastal ecosystems, hunting tourism, and organized crimes such as timber logging.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 355-358
K1 Crime Prevention
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 Environmental Harm
K1 Organize Crime
K1 South Eastern
DO 10.1007/s10611-013-9419-0