Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement / Susan L. Smith and Iina Sahramäki, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Susan L., editor.

Sahramäki, Iina, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in environmental law.

Research Handbooks in Environmental Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offenses against the environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

This Research Handbook thoroughly examines the difficult and rapidly expanding problem of national, transnational, and international environmental crimes, including air and water pollution, unlawful mining and timber harvesting, and trafficking of endangered species.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I Theory and Reality

1. Issues in defining and punishing environmental crimes: An introduction

2. Corporate environmental non-compliance and the effects of internal systems and sanctions

3. The law and psychology of environmental crimes

4. Environmental crimes and the treadmill of production: Neoliberal policy and neocolonialism

5. Criminal enforcement of environmental laws cannot deter ecological harm or achieve environmental justice

6. Environmental harms and innovative justice

7. Methodological challenges in empirical research on environmental crimes

8. Green crime prevention stirred and spiced: An AGILE approach to regulatory crime prevention

Part II Transnational and International Environmental Crimes

9. Transnational environmental crime

10. International wildlife trade

11. Illegal trafficking in plants and timber

12. Transnational environmental crime and corruption

13. Environmental crime and shadow economy: Evidence from Italy

14. International environmental crimes and ecocide

Part III The Global Scope of Environmental Crimes

15. Environmental crimes and criminal enforcement in the United States

16. European environmental criminal law and enforcement

17. Green crimes and environmental harms in the Latin American region

18. Reflections from Africa: Limited state capacity and the rise of environmental organized crime

19. Criminal enforcement of environmental law in South Africa

20. Chinese environmental crimes and criminal justice

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Smith, Susan L. Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement

ISBN:

9781035309511

OCLC:

1422224557