Policing the environment: the prosecution of wildlife and environmental crimes
Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual victims that are the norm with ‘traditional’ crimes of interpersonal violence and property crime, green crimes should be given importance if not priority...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Organized crime in the 21st century
Year: 2023, Pages: 171-190 |
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| Summary: | Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual victims that are the norm with ‘traditional’ crimes of interpersonal violence and property crime, green crimes should be given importance if not priority within justice systems. This chapter brings together several themes concerning policing, regulation and prosecution of environmental harms. Its focus is on the prosecution of organised environmental crime with a consideration of how varied judicial and regulatory approaches can more effectively address environmental harms. This chapter discusses the potential ineffectiveness of criminal law approaches where wildlife and environmental laws have been designed as administrative, regulatory and conservation management law rather than as ‘pure’ criminal law. This chapter notes the benefits of civil and administrative mechanisms that focus more on repairing harm and changing behaviour. In examining the prosecution of organised environmental crime, this chapter identifies how green criminology’s engagement with legal discourse examines complex issues in criminological enquiry that extend beyond the narrow confines of individualistic crime. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 188-190 |
| ISBN: | 9783031215759 |