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Autore: |
Situ Yingyi
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Titolo: |
Environmental crime [[electronic resource] ] : the criminal justice system's role in protecting the environment / / Yingyi Situ, David Emmons
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Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 218 p.) |
Disciplina: | 345.730242 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmental law - United States - Criminal provisions |
Offenses against the environment - United States | |
Altri autori: |
EmmonsDavid <1940-2009.>
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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Sommario/riassunto: | In this book the authors define environmental crime and discuss the extent of the environmental crisis. They then explore the causes, investigation, prosecution and prevention of all types of environmental crime. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Environmental crime ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-5063-3868-2 |
1-4522-3225-3 | |
0-7619-0036-5 | |
1-4522-6336-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779211903321 |
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