SOC 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Corporate Crime, Robert Lee Bullard, Warren County, North Carolina
4 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Environmental crime and justice: in and out of prison. What is green criminology: definition: the basic concern of green criminology is to identify and examine the forms of victimization, harms, crime, law and justice that relate to and stem from damaging the natural environment . Violations of environmental laws: clean air act, clean water act, resource conservation act, recovery act. Neurotoxins: certain neurotoxins affect the way people behave eg. aggression, can provoke violent behaviours, inhibit learning, inhibit relation formation, yaqui valley in mexico high concentration of pesticides, women high rates of breast cancer, children aggressive, learning disabilities. Death: 2017, 17,250 homicides in u. s, 200,00 deaths due to air pollution, world health organization: 1 in 8 premature deaths around the world each year are due to air pollution. History of green criminology and environmental justice: federal environmental law in the us. Presence of green criminology in criminology research waste and pollution: green criminology is a form of corporate crime.
