The state-corporate crime of extractive industries
Several disciplines address the problem of transnational extractive activity in Latin America and its negative impacts on the environment, the animal and plant world, individual and social human life, and the economic and political systems. Criminology, however, has only recently taken on the task o...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Green crime in the global south
Year: 2023, Pages: 33-67 |
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| Summary: | Several disciplines address the problem of transnational extractive activity in Latin America and its negative impacts on the environment, the animal and plant world, individual and social human life, and the economic and political systems. Criminology, however, has only recently taken on the task of analysing the operations and consequences of transnational extractive industries as a criminogenic phenomenon. In this chapter, the subject is studied using the concept of state–corporate crime. There is a focus on the modes of interaction of the interests of the different political and economic actors that converge in the generation of highly damaging negative effects. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 58-67 |
| ISBN: | 9783031277535 |
