| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Offenses against the environment -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Offenses against the environment -- United States
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Offenses against the environment
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Offenses against the environment -- Law and legislation
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Emmons, Dr. David
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| ISBN |
9781452263366 |
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1452263361 |
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9780761900375 |
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0761900373 |
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