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; the second focuses explicitly on the problem of victimization in cases of environmental crime; and the third addresses the question of how to tackle this problem. Discussing these topics from the point of view of green criminological theory, sociology, law enforcement, community wellbeing, environmental activism and victimology, this book will be of great interest to all those concerned about crime and the environment.
Introduction; I: Examining the Crime and the Victimization Problem; 1: The Criminogenic Effects of Environmental Harm: Bringing a 'Green' Perspective to Mainstream Criminology; 2: Climate Change: A State-corporate Crime Perspective; 3: The Corporation as Villain and Victim: Reflections on Privilege, Complicity, Awareness, and Accountability; 4: Environmental Victims and Criminal Justice: Proceed with Caution; 5: Eco-justice and Problem-solving Approaches to Environmental Crime and Victimisation; 6: Victims of Environmental Crime: Routes for Recognition, Restitution and Redress; II: Characteristics of Different Types of Environmental Crime; 7: Trade in 'Dirty Air': Carbon Crime and the Politics of Pollution; 8: Oil Spills: A Persistent Problem; 9: A Decade of Violations in the Dutch Chemical Industry; 10: Illegal E-waste Transports: Exploring their Harmfulness, Scale, Social Organization and Governance; 11: Camouflage-collar Crime: An Examination of Wildlife Crime and Characteristics of Offenders in Florida; 12: On the Relationship between Animal Victimization and Stigmatization of Ethnic Groups: The Case of Ritual Slaughter; III: Combating Environmental Crime; 13: Invisible Victims: the Problem of Policing Environmental Crime; 14: Project LEAF, and Interpol's Work on Illegal Logging and Forest Crime; 15: Communities as Victims of Environmental Crime: Lessons from the Field; 16: The Treadmill of Production, Planetary Boundaries and Green Criminology; 17: Assessing the Partner and Media Engagement with the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime
