green crime

• What is green crime?

  Harms caused to living beingsthrough the creation ofenvironmental hazardsexisting and local and global levelsChernobylPoachingCalifornia wide fires: gender reveal
• What is primary green crime?

  Crimes that result directly from the destruction of earths resources.Pollution, poaching, deforestation, fly tipping
• What is secondary green crime?

  Crimes that grows out of the flouting (breaking) rules relating to the environment.Violence against environmental groups (french attacks on the greenpeace ship), Bribery to avoid environmental regulations
• Example of green crime

  Horizon BP disasterOil spill in the gulf of Mexico in 2010, 11 people were killed and 17 injured.None of the chargers against individuals resulted in any prison time and no charges were given to upper level executives.
• Green criminology: Anthropocentrism vs Ecocentrism

  Anthropocentrism- States that humans have the right to dominate nature for their own means.Ecocentrism- Sees humans and the environment as independent - harming the environment ultimately harms humans (green criminologists are ecocentric)
• Green crime and states

  Many green crimes areundertaken by states themselvesthe very people supposed to be policing environmental harm. This is normally because tackling green crime is very expensive and some national are in different stages of economic development i.e. they need/want to burn fossil fuels instead of embracing new technology due to costs.Highlighted @ COP26
• Green crime and military

  The military are the biggest institutional polluters due to the amount of unexploded devices and shrapnel that is left behind in war zones. They have long lasting effects due to the toxicity of the items for example farmers and northern France and Belgium are still finding shrapnel that is from ww1 and some fields are still unusable for agriculture.
• Hard to police


  Green crimes areextremely difficult to enforce/policesuch as corporations dumping hazardous waste into the ocean.International laws are new and underdeveloped.There are a few international laws about green crime