Green crime

• Beck


  Globalisation has led to manufactured risks (dangers that we have never faced before). Manufactured risks such as climate change are a global issue.
• Traditional criminology


  Not concerned with green crime as no law has been broken.
• Green criminology


  Starts from the notion of harm rather than the criminal law.
• White - green criminology 


  
  

  The proper subject of criminology is any action that harms the physical environment and / or those within it, even if no law has been broken.
• White - two views of harm


  Anthropocentric - Human centred. Assumes that humans have the right to dominate nature for their own ends and puts economic growth before the environment.

  Ecocentric- Humans and their environment are interdependent.
• South


  Primary crimes - crimes that result directly from the destruction of the earth’s resources. 4 main types:

  Air pollution

  Deforestation

  Species decline & animal rights

  Water pollution

  Secondary crimes - crimes generated by ignoring rules aimed at preventing or regulation of environmental disasters. Divided into:

  State violence against oppositional groups

  Hazardous waste & organised crime