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Crime and Deviance

Green crime

  • 3 things to know
  • Paper 3

Overview

Primary and secondary green crime, green criminology's wider definition, and why prosecution is so difficult.

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What is green crime, and what are primary green crimes?

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What are secondary green crimes, and how do states and organised crime commit them?

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How does corporate power affect the prosecution of green crime?

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  1. 1

    What is green crime?

    Model answer

    Crimes against the environment, including both actions that violate existing environmental laws and legal but ecologically harmful activities.

  2. 2

    How does traditional criminology define green crime?

    Model answer

    It takes a legalistic approach, defining green crime only as acts that break environmental laws, which vary between nations.

  3. 3

    How does green criminology's approach to defining environmental crime differ from traditional criminology?

    Model answer

    It adopts a broader transgressive approach, defining harm to the environment and species as criminal regardless of legal status.

  4. 4

    What are primary green crimes?

    Model answer

    Crimes that result directly from the destruction and degradation of the earth's resources.

  5. 5

    Give an example of air pollution as a primary green crime.

    Model answer

    Air pollution involves the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere, directly degrading environmental quality.

  6. 6

    How is water pollution classified within green criminology?

    Model answer

    It is a primary green crime as it directly degrades water resources through contamination.

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