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Environmental Crime : the Criminal Justice System's Role in Protecting the Environment.
After defining environmental crime and discussing the extent of the environmental crisis, this book explores the causes, investigation, prosecution and prevention of all types of environmental crime.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1
- Introduction; Approaches to Defining Crime; A Definition of Environmental Crime; The Extent of the Environmental Crisis; Toxic Waste; Pollution Violators; Water Quality; Air Pollution; Impacts of the Environmental Crisis; Human Impact; Economic Impact; Social and Psychological Impact; Public Opinion and the Environmental Crisis; Criminal Justice and the Environmental Crisis; Congress; The Executive Branch; Courts; State Governments; Summary; Emerging Legal Issues; The Erosion of Mens Rea; Prosecutorial Discretion; Search and Seizure; Preview.
- Review QuestionsChapter 2
- Criminal Law and The Environment; Understanding Criminal Law; Social Control; Social Engineering; The Differences Between Civil and Criminal Law; The Development of Environmental Law; An Overview of Key Environmental Criminal Laws; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Clean Air Act; Toxic Substances Control Act; Federal Water Pollution Control Act and Amendments; Safe Drinking Water Act; Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; Refuse Act; Summary; Liability in Environmental Crime.
- Knowing OffensesNegligent Violations; Endangerment; Noncompliance With Permits, Self-Reporting, Inspection, and Fees; Summary; Civil and Other Criminal Sanctions; Environmental Criminal Law at the State Level; The Role of the States; State Variations; Key Legal Issues: Is Justice Strained?; Review Questions; Chapter 3
- Corporate Environmental Crime; Corporate Environmental Crime Defined; An Overview of Industrial Pollution; Toxic Dumping as a Corporate Way of Life: The Hooker Chemical Case; Hazards in the Workplace; Environmental Pollution in the Developing World.
- Explaining Corporate Environmental CrimeMotivation; Opportunity; Law Enforcement; Conclusion; Review Questions; Chapter 4
- Organized Crime Against The Environment; Organized Crime Defined; Organized Crime and Hazardous Waste; Hazardous Waste Offenses as Group Crime; Group Crime; Interfirm Connections; Organized Crime in New Jersey; Explaining Organized Environmental Crime; Anomie; Differential Association; Cultural Transmission; Social Control; Review Questions; Chapter 5
- Environment Crime by The Government; Governmental Crime Against the Environment Defined; Crimes of Commission.
- Nuclear Testing by the Atomic Energy CommissionDisposal of Hazardous Waste by the Military; Environmental Damage During Wartime Military Operations; The U.S. Department of Energy and Federal Weapons Production Facilities; Deforestation by the U.S. Forest Service; Crimes of Omission; The Departments of Energy and Defense at Weapons Production Facilities and Military Bases; The Environmental Protection Agency; The Government's Role in the Love Canal Disaster; Explaining Environmental Crime by the Government; Goal Attainment; Legal Doctrine; Institutional Capability to Enforce the Law.