Green crime

• Green criminologists:

  • Environment concerned
  • If harms environment Should be a crime
  • E.g. Litter + pollution
• Traditional criminologists:

  • Too difficult to define environment harm as crime without concrete boundaries
  • Interest in environment issues if written laws broken
• White (green criminologist) -

  • Anthrocentric: humans=right to use nature's resources (e.g. Meat, dairy + burn fossil fuels)
  • Ecocentric: humans + nature = interdependent (need eachother)
  • So need to be sustainable + ethical
• South:

  • Primary green crime - crime from destruction of earth's resources
  • Air pollution, deforestation + animal abuse
  • Secondary green crime - crime from flouting rules aimed at preventing environmental disasters
  • Hazardous waste products drained into rivers