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Crime and Deviance - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Whilst Fraud is one of the highest committed corporate crime, it is also has a very low reporting rate (believed 90% of white collar crime goes unreported), whilst a high conviction rate of roughly 84%, as found by the CPS in regards to serious cases, with most sentences lasting up to 5 years.
  - - - Air pollution - fossil fuels put 3 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year. This is growing by 2% every year.
      - Deforestation is a large problem for the environment, natural forests are being destroyed every year with the Amazon slowly being destroyed. In 30 years between 1960 and 1990 ⅕ of the world's forests got destroyed.
      - The effect that humans have on different species is ever increasing, many species of animals are facing extinction every day (50 species) and their habitats are being taken away from them as a result of deforestation.
      - Water pollution is a very dangerous form of Green Crime, it affects humans negatively as well with 25 million dying from water contamination.
      - Environmental crime is the fourth largest criminal activity in the world
- - - - Sociological theories include Situ and Emmons (2000) who define Green Crime as acts against the environment that are ‘an unauthorised act or omission that violates law’. They also do not accept the definition of governments that create the laws and what they would label as a Green Crime, because this may be to serve their own interests
        
        Chambliss defines state crime as acts defined by law as criminal and committed by state officials in pursuit of their jobs as representatives of the state.