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Victims of Environmental Harm : Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law.
In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities. These developments have given rise to a new area of criminologi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge frontiers of criminal justice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Victims, environmental harm and international law; 1.1 Introduction and goals of this book; 1.2 Theoretical perspectives; 1.3 The role of the state and of international law; 1.4 Summary and book structure; 2 Identifying and conceptualizing the victims of environmental harm; 2.1 Investigating environmental victimization and its impacts; 2.2 Victims as offenders, offenders as victims; 2.3 Inequalities in the impacts of environmental victimization.
- 2.4 Environmental victims as victims of abuse of power?2.5 Ways forward; 3 Environmental victims across jurisdictions: criminal law and state responsibility; 3.1 The challenges of incorporating environmental harms into criminal law; 3.2 Victims of environmental harm in domestic criminal justice systems; 3.3 Victims of environmental harm in European criminal justice; 3.4 Beyond Europe: the 1985 UN declaration and international law; 3.5 International criminal law: prospects for the International Criminal Court; 3.6 State responsibility for environmental degradation under international law.
- 3.7 Conclusions and ways forward4 Human rights, victim rights, environmental rights?; 4.1 Conceptualizing victims' rights; 4.2 The human rights of environmental victims; 4.3 Victim participation?; 4.4 Discussion and ways forward; 5 Responding to environmental victimization: compensation, restitution and redress; 5.1 What do victims of environmental crime want? What do they need?; 5.2 Mechanisms of redress; 5.3 International influences on compensation and restitution for victims of environmental harm; 5.4 Restorative options; 5.5 Conclusions and ways forward; 6 Mapping out a green victimology.
- 6.1 Is criminal justice the solution?6.2 What are the limitations of current provisions for environmental victims?; 6.3 Environmental victims: the need for an interdisciplinary approach; 6.4 Green victimology; 6.5 Final conclusions; Notes; References; Index.