| Description |
1 online resource (141 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Hazardous Waste: What Is It and Why Is It a Threat? -- How Did We Get to This Point? A Chronology from Ancient History to the Present -- Major Pollution Events Since the Mid-1900s -- Emerging Problems -- Discussion -- Discussion Questions -- Case Study: Chemical Control Corporation and Its Criminal Brethren -- References -- Chapter 2 What Industries Produce Hazardous Waste and What Wastes Do They Produce? -- A Special Case: Plastics -- Other Sources of Hazardous Wastes |
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The Metal Mining Sector -- The Chemical Industry Sector -- Electrical Utilities Sector -- Petroleum Industry Sector -- Non-point Source Pollution -- Discussion -- Discussion Questions -- References -- Chapter 3 The Legitimate Treatment of Hazardous Waste in the United States: What Was Done in the Past and What Is Done Today -- Storage -- Combustion -- Secure Landfill Disposal -- New Technologies to Treat Hazardous Waste -- Discussion -- Discussion Questions -- Case Study: The Use of Bioremediation to Neutralize Hazardous Waste -- References |
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Chapter 4 The Legal Environment of Environmental Crime -- Introduction -- Federal Laws and Regulations -- The State Environment -- Issues Affecting Criminal Liability -- The Application of General Criminal Statutes -- The Offenders -- Case Study: Environmental Crime and the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 The Driving Forces of Environmental Criminality -- The Offenders: Why They Do It -- The "Calculating" Criminal -- Opportunity for Environmental Offenders: The California Manifest Tracking System |
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"Rationalizing Away" Environmental Criminality -- The "Misunderstanding" of Hazardous Waste and Its Proper Management -- Discussion -- Discussion Questions -- Case Study: An Environmental Crime Enforcer's Perspective on New Jersey Organized Crime and Environmental Crime in the 1980s -- References -- Chapter 6 Criminal Methods of Today's Average Environmental Offender -- General Environmental Violation Categories -- Land Dispersal -- Mining-Generated Land and Water Dispersal -- Water Dispersal: Ocean-Going Vessels -- Offshore Oil Platforms -- Air Dispersal -- Discussion |
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Case Study: Special Problem in Water Dispersal -- "Ship Breaking" -- Discussion Questions -- References -- Chapter 7 Who Protects Us from Environmental Crime and How Effective Are They? -- Introduction -- Proactive Prevention of Environmental Crime -- Reactive Enforcement and Prosecution of Environmental Crime -- Case Study: Fracking and Federal-State Enforcement Cooperation -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Justice for All? Are We Achieving Environmental Justice in the United States? -- Introduction -- Environmental Justice Defined |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Environmental Racism, Environmental Equity, and Related Terms |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Curtis, George E
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| ISBN |
9781498754873 |
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1498754872 |
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