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Green Crime, Wolf 'Green crime' is used to describe actions that…
Green Crime
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Type of crime
Transgressive
Lynch + Stretsky Green crime should include any action which causes environmental harm - people, animals and plants
Crosses boundaries of law breaking + new issues of harm + morality
Relative to each country - hard to define as political + international
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-Different laws - Conties have different law on what is green crime
-Different definitions - Subjective in definition
-Difficult to measure - Carried out by individuals, corporate who can hide it
-Use of case studies - Limited when make generalisation
Social construction
Marxists
Snider - States reluctant to harm laws that harm private businesses. They will strengthen them reluctantly + weaken when possible
Sutherland Despite killing so many, corporate + environmental harm don't carry same stigma as conventional crime - businesses have money to avoid being labelled criminal
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