Environmental Crime and its Victims

Toine Spapens is Professor of Criminology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and part-time Professor of Environmental Crime, the Police Academy of the Netherlands. His research interests are in environmental crime, organized crime, regulatory issues and international police and judicial cooperation. Rob White is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia. He has written widely in the areas of criminology and youth studies, and has a particular interest in issues related to environmental harm, ecological justice and green criminology. Marieke Kluin is a PhD Researcher at Delft Technical University, Safety Science Group. Her doctoral research with the working title ’Compliance and rule violation in the chemical industry’ focuses on the relationship between rule violation, compliance, organizational criminology, and safety in the chemical industry.

Introduction; I: Examining the Crime and the Victimization Problem; 1: The Criminogenic Effects of Environmental Harm: Bringing a ‘Green' Perspective to Mainstream Criminology; 2: Climate Change: A State-corporate Crime Perspective; 3: The Corporation as Villain and Victim: Reflections on Privilege, Complicity, Awareness, and Accountability; 4: Environmental Victims and Criminal Justice: Proceed with Caution; 5: Eco-justice and Problem-solving Approaches to Environmental Crime and Victimisation; 6: Victims of Environmental Crime: Routes for Recognition, Restitution and Redress; II: Characteristics of Different Types of Environmental Crime; 7: Trade in ‘Dirty Air': Carbon Crime and the Politics of Pollution; 8: Oil Spills: A Persistent Problem; 9: A Decade of Violations in the Dutch Chemical Industry; 10: Illegal E-waste Transports: Exploring their Harmfulness, Scale, Social Organization and Governance; 11: Camouflage-collar Crime: An Examination of Wildlife Crime and Characteristics of Offenders in Florida; 12: On the Relationship between Animal Victimization and Stigmatization of Ethnic Groups: The Case of Ritual Slaughter; III: Combating Environmental Crime; 13: Invisible Victims: the Problem of Policing Environmental Crime; 14: Project LEAF, and Interpol's Work on Illegal Logging and Forest Crime; 15: Communities as Victims of Environmental Crime: Lessons from the Field; 16: The Treadmill of Production, Planetary Boundaries and Green Criminology; 17: Assessing the Partner and Media Engagement with the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime