ABSTRACT

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope of environmental crimes and harms is one of the reasons why governments and the enforcement community have trouble in finding the proper responses. Law enforcement cooperation between western industrialized states is often time consuming and problematic, and the problems increase exponentially when environmental criminals take advantage of situations where government and law enforcement are weak.

This book provides an overview of the developments and problems in the field of transnational environmental crimes and harms, addressing these issues from perspectives such as enforcement, deterrence, compliance and emission trading schemes. Divided into four parts, the authors consider global issues in green criminology, responses to transnational environmental crimes and harms, alternative methods to combat environmental crime, and specific types of crimes and criminological research.

Discussing these topics from the view of green criminology, sociology and governance, this book will be of great interest to all those concerned about the transnational dimensions of crime and the environment.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|75 pages

The Global Context of Environmental Crime and Green Criminology

chapter 1|18 pages

The Contested Planet

Global Green Criminology and Environmental Crime in Transnational Context

chapter 2|16 pages

Tackling Cross-Border Environmental Crime

A ‘Wicked Problem'

chapter 4|16 pages

Is Green Criminology Paradigm-Breaking?

Some Reflections on Hydrocarbon and Resource Extraction, Crime and Criminological Thinking

part II|71 pages

Law Enforcement Responses to (Transnational) Environmental Crime

chapter 5|16 pages

Addressing Transnational Environmental Crime

The Role of Intelligence-Led Policing

chapter 6|23 pages

Regulatory Responses to Transnational Environmental Crime

An Overview of Choices, Challenges and Culture

chapter 7|15 pages

Transboundary International Fisheries Crime and Restitution for South Africa

The Case of United States v. Bengis, 2013

part III|75 pages

Alternative Methods to Combat (Transnational) Environmental Crime

chapter 9|17 pages

New Environmental Governance

Environmental Harms, Enforcement and Collaboration

chapter 11|15 pages

Deterring Corporate Environmental Crime

Lessons from the Waste Industry in the Netherlands

part IV|65 pages

(Transnational) Environmental Crime and Criminological Research

chapter 14|18 pages

Eliciting Narratives on the Experiences of Environmental Victimization

A Qualitative Visual Method

chapter 16|12 pages

Putting Our Own Animals First!

On the Criminalization of the Migration of Other than Human Animals