Environmental Crime and its Victims: Perspectives within Green Criminology
| By: | Kluin, Marieke, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472422781 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472422804 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. These types of crime, however, do not always produce an immediate consequence, and the harm may be diffused. As such, the complexity of victimization - in terms of time, space, impact, and who or what is victimized - is one of the reasons why governments and the enforcement community have trouble in finding suitable and effective responses.
This book provides a diverse and provocative array of arguments, critiques and recommendations from leading researchers and scholars in the field of green criminology. The chapters are divided into three main sections: the first part deals with specific characteristics of some of the major types of environmental crime and its perpetrators