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Title Environmental crime : a reader / edited by Rob White
Published Portland, Ore. ; Cullompton, Devon : Willan Publishing, 2009

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Description xvii, 743 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Conceptualising environmental crime -- Crime, ecophilosophy and environmental harm -- Criminological semantics: conversation criminology -- vision or vagary -- Environmental issues and the criminological imagination -- Meaning of green: contrasting criminological perspectives -- Corporate environmental crimes and social inequality: new directions for environmental justice research -- Logging and legality: environmental crime, civil society, and the state -- World Bank and crimes of globalization: a case study -- Rights and justice on a shared planet: more rights or new relations? -- For a nonspeciesist criminology: animal abuse as an object of study -- Environmental victimology -- Reflections on environmental justice: children as victims and actors -- Against "green" criminology -- Dynamics of Environmental crime -- Environmental crimes: profiting at the earth's expense -- Environmental crime in global context: exploring the theoretical and empirical complexities -- Environmental crime and pollution: wasteful reflections -- Historical context and hazardous waste facility siting: understanding temporal patterns in Michigan -- Resisting toxic militarism: Vieques versus the U.S.Navy -- Politics of illegal dumping: an environmental justice framework -- Impact of race on environmental quality: empirical and theoretical discussion -- Environmental genocide: Native Americans and toxic waste -- Illegal market in Australian abalone -- Lobster poaching and the ironies of law enforcement -- Crime, bio-agriculture and the exploitation of hunger -- Toxic crimes: examining corporate victimization of the general public employing medical and epidemiological evidence -- Environmental Law Enforcement -- Combatting international environmental crime -- Transnational environmental crime in the Asia Pacific: an 'un(der)securitized' problem? -- Police, law enforcement and the environment -- Strengthening the weakest links: strategies for improving the enforcement of environmental laws globally -- When the heavenly gaze criminalises: satellite surveillance, land clearance regulation and the human-nature relationship -- Reducing the illicit trade in endangered wildlife: the market reduction approach -- Corporate self-policing and the environment -- Can criminal law protect the environment -- Excuses: the ritual trivialisation of environmental prosecution -- Environmental crime and the courts -- Thinking outside the 'black box': tailored enforcement in environmental criminal law -- Reducing vulnerabilities to crime of the European waste management industry: the research base and the prospects for policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Offenses against the environment
Author White, R. D. (Robert Douglas), 1956-
ISBN 1843925125
9781843925125