Environmental Crimes in UK Law
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The convergence of environmental crime with other serious crimes: Subtypes within the environmental crime continuum
The rising global scarcity of natural resources increasingly attracts transnational criminal organizations. Organized crime syndicates diversify into the lucrative business of tropical timber, enda...
- Sentencing for Environmental Crimes: The Impact of the Sentencing Council’s Guideline: R (on the application of the Environment Agency) v Lawrence [2020] EWCA Crim 1465
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Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: A comparative analysis
Despite the devastating short- and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, o...... ... Lavorgna University of Southampton, UK Abstract Despite the devastating short- and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, organized crime groups have emerged as prominent ... ...
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A sensory and visual approach for comprehending environmental victimization by the asbestos industry in Casale Monferrato
Although Europe has banned asbestos since 2005, many of the occupational and environmental harms perpetrated by the industry are still appearing. The aim of this paper is to present a new methodolo...... ... The aim of this paper is to present a new methodological technique to explore and map the social perception of these environmental crimes and harms. In particular, we ask: how do social actors feel about and interpret asbestos- related environmental crimes and harms? To answer this ... ...
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The role of blameworthiness in the federal probation sentencing of corporate environmental offenders
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the federal sentencing of organizational probation for environmental offenders using the focal concerns. Those organizations that are more blame...... ... measures of blameworthiness grounded in the focal concerns.Findings –The results showed that thoseorganizations convicted of environmental crimes received30%longer probation sentences than those not convicted of environmental crimes. However, additionalmeasurements of blameworthinessderived ... ...
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Doing Justice to the Environment
This article examines some of the characteristic features of environmental offences, in particular the ways in which these offences and their treatment in the courts deviate from general principles...... ... This article examines some of the characteristic features of environmental offences, in particular the ways in which these offences and their ... offences or a general defence of due diligence for environmental crimes". Keywords Environmental crime; Strict liability; Causation; Magis- trates\xE2" ... ...
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Advancing interdisciplinary research on illegal wildlife trade using a conservation criminology framework
Green criminologists have recently entered a period of self-assessment, critiquing the discursive nature of theory, over-reliance on case studies, and lack of interdisciplinarity in this area of st...... ... of empirically driven policy to address IWT and other environmental crimes and risks. Keywords Conservation criminology, green criminology, ... ...
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USA: Private Prosecution of Criminal Conduct
In the USA, unlike Germany, Japan, and many other nations, victims ordinarily play a very limited role in the prosecution of crimes. Indeed, victims have so little prosecutorial authority that a gr...... ... , victims ordinarily play a very limited role in the prosecution of crimes. Indeed, victims have so little prosecutorial authority that a growing ... some important exceptions to this general rule — for many environmental and white-collar crimes, pri-vate citizens can bring actions to enforce ... ...
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Testing the reflection assumption
In the US, experts are often called upon to provide evidence during criminal trials regarding eyewitness identification research. A key factor is probative value: to what extent are findings from l...... ... of eyewitness ecology, a term referring to the environmental context in which ... to capture the essential characteristics of real-world crimes (e.g. Deffenbacher, 1984; Haber and Haber, 2000; Loftus, ... ...
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Criminal redress in cases of environmental victimization: a defence1
In recent years, growing concern has been voiced in the environmental justice literature regarding the ability of criminal justice mechanisms to adequately address environmental harms, especially w...... ... ion of more adminis trative resolutio ns when corporate bo dies breach their environmentalobligations (which may or may not amoun t to ‘crimes’). Othersfavour the use of civil sanction regimes , which is now the preferredapproach of the UK Environment Agency.In this paper I will argue that ... ...
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