Summary
Contents
Subject index
After defining environmental crime and discussing the extent of the environmental crisis, this book explores the causes, investigation, prosecution and prevention of all types of environmental crime.
Personal Environmental Crime
Personal Environmental Crime
The environmental offenses we have examined so far have their roots in collectivities. The agents of the offenses have been individuals, but they are almost always acting on behalf of, for the benefit of, under the direction of, or in the name of corporations, organizations, or government. The offenses they commit are large scale—from the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, and Rocky Flats to lesser disasters and bad conduct that still wreak serious environmental or human damage. The offenses are crimes, after all, rather than civil wrongs, under the law precisely because their effects are significant. These two characteristics—an organizational context and a serious impact—are absent in a fourth type of offense that we examine in this chapter: personal environmental ...
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