Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement

Edited by Susan Lea Smith, Professor of Law, College of Law, Willamette University, US and Iina Sahramäki, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland

Contents

Preface xvi
Acknowledgements xvii

PART I THEORY AND REALITY
1 Issues in defining and punishing environmental crimes: An introduction 2
Susan Lea Smith
2 Corporate environmental non-compliance and the effects of internal
systems and sanctions 36
Sally S. Simpson and Jocelyn Evens
3 The law and psychology of environmental crimes 68
Lori Hoetger and Arden Rowell
4 Environmental crimes and the treadmill of production: Neoliberal
policy and neocolonialism 88
Michael A. Long, Jericho R. McElroy and Michael J. Lynch
5 Criminal enforcement of environmental laws cannot deter ecological
harm or achieve environmental justice 106
Paul Stretesky, Ekaterina Gladkova and Nathan Stephens-Griffin
6 Environmental harms and innovative justice 128
Rob White
7 Methodological challenges in empirical research on environmental crimes 146
Serena Favarin and Cecilia Meneghini
8 Green crime prevention stirred and spiced: An agile approach to
regulatory crime prevention 168
Iina Sahramäki

PART II TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES
9 Transnational environmental crime 188
Daan van Uhm
10 International wildlife trade 202
Ragnhild Sollund
11 Illegal trafficking in plants and timber 227
Angus Nurse
12 Transnational environmental crime and corruption 246
David Aled Williams
13 Environmental crime and shadow economy: Evidence from Italy 263
Anna Rita Germani and Angelo Castaldo
14 International environmental crimes and ecocide 281
Darryl Robinson

PART III THE GLOBAL SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES
15 Environmental crimes and criminal enforcement in the United States 305
Susan Mandiberg
16 European environmental criminal law and enforcement 324
Michael Faure and Mengxing Lu
17 Green crimes and environmental harms in the Latin American region 346
Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, José Luis Carpio-Domínguez and Jesús Ignacio
Castro-Salazar
18 Reflections from Africa: Limited state capacity and the rise of
environmental organized crime 365
Derica Lambrechts
19 Criminal enforcement of environmental law in South Africa 382
Michael Kidd and Melissa Strydom
20 Chinese environmental crimes and criminal justice 407
Ying Wang