Environmental crime [[electronic resource] ] : the criminal justice system's role in protecting the environment / / Yingyi Situ, David Emmons

• Autore: Situ Yingyi
• 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.>
• 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 ; Review Questions
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II