Environmental Crime and Perspectives

Examining Social Structure Theory Heather Huyser CJS 231 December 22, 2014 Christopher Hammond Examining Social Structure Theory For the purpose of this paper in examining theories, I have chosen to view the Tent City, AZ video. “Located in the desert near downtown Phoenix, Tent City houses 2,000 inmates in canvas tents” (Films Media Group, 2007). Conditions

All struggles for power is political, thus there is an ineluctable political dimension to debates over the definition of crime (Dantzker and Hunter, 2006:7). Serious social harms are ignored by the traditional definition of crime because it benefits the political and economic agenda of a certain group of people. The sociologist Edwin Sutherland argued that the justice system is systematically biased towards people of higher classes, their class power allows them to influence the implementation and administration of the law (Maguire & Radosh 1996 pg 87). For example, large cooperation’s can influence politics, through lobbying, they use their economic power to buy into the government enabling them to influence government policies. Therefore the “law cannot be fully trusted”, (Yar, 2012: 52, because it disproportionately targets blue collar crime over that of white collar. This is because people who make the law have a vested interest. So, a positive attribute of social harms is that it challenges structures of power, such as government, and works outside the framework of “law”, the study of harm, is likely to “implicate states” (Dorling

graphics, and that sees the social disorganizations that characterizes delinquency areas as a major cause of criminality and victimization.” In other words, ecological is the relationship between the living organisms and their environment around them. I do believe that ecological approaches have a valid place in contemporary criminological thinking. For the fact, that these ecological approaches can help find and eliminate negative factors that one might encounter living in a certain area that has a high crime rate. These certain factors are what are used to see if certain individual commit crimes because of their environmental influences or

Certain environmental justice frameworks attempt to turn the dominant environmental paradigm on its head and seek to prevent environmental threats before they occur. This paradigm is known as the Precautionary

Definition of Public Criminology Public criminology takes information, research and education to the next level, as discovered through this essay. It doesn’t just include lab work, research and discoveries, it involves community based teaching in a way that the public can be informed and educated through upfront communication. Throughout this essay, the broad definition of public criminology will be discussed as well as its relevance to society. As with anything, there are challenges and promises that accompany public criminology and those will be stated in this essay. Examples will be given to help you learn the different concepts of public criminology and how it relates to our modern society. Given as a starting point, according to

• Constructing green crimes: implications for green criminology – in the past the environmental justice movement took different approaches but this was in accordance on how the term “green” used. According to the environmental justice movement a green crime would be an act which “violates environmental rules and regulations, places damage on the environment, and are caused by human.

1). Criminology arose from the social scientific community over the year and has since come into its own discipline, it examines the entire process of lawmaking, law breaking, and law enforcing” (as cited in Akers, & Sellers, 2013). Criminology seeks to discover the depth of crime at both the micro and macro levels, from the individual’s natural biological and psychological characteristics, the nurturing of social and structural institutions, to policy, prevention and control.

The investigation of crime, society’s reaction to it and approaches to prevent it are all areas that have interested me from my adolescent years. I have an interest and passion for Criminology studies for the strict purpose of wanting to fulfill a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of crime and exploring how crimes affect our society. This shady interest in the criminal world has encouraged me to pursue the subject at degree level and to seriously consider a career in a related field. At the beginning of the course my understanding on crime and criminology was mostly derived from the internet or media. These tools became very useful for me to learn different subjects of crime. My perspective on crime changed tremendously throughout reading the first chapter of Criminology: A Canadian Perspective by Rick Linden, after reading chapter one it made me understand that the picture of crime presented by the media is often inaccurate. The media painted a picture that was often wrong and exaggerated. As a

At present, much of the edible food of Australia is being needlessly thrown away. This problem should be controlled, due to the fact that is one of the most significant causes of environmental disasters. In addition, it may entail issues related to hunger in both wealthy and poor countries. Australian food

Power of context In the 1980s, the City of New York was a City polluted with waste and graffiti, where people would always get away with committing a crime. In Malcolm Gladwell’s essay “The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime” gives us a probable explanation of how a change like this can happen. The essay is an environmental argument, with varying kinds of a seemingly endless amount of verification, which suggests that crimes can be prohibited depending on what the environment is like. Malcolm Gladwell, provides evidence throughout his entire essay that explains The Power of Context. The Power of Context indicates that the situation people are in has an effect on how they act wherever they are at.

2. The Mayor announces new fleet of electric waste vehicles Residents can soon report environmental crimes in their area: Show the Cabinets scheme of incentives and how it will affect communities. Show how people can get involved with their councils to report crimes. Interview a resident in an area with a lot of environmental issues caused by other residents. Show what consequences being reported would lead to.

(Department of Homeland Security 2017) Race will be defined as white and non-white. Crime also needs to be defined as “white collar” or “blue collar”, this allows for differentiation between who is committing which types of crime. the Letric Law Library defines white and blue collar crime as, “Blue-collar crime is a term given to criminal acts more likely to be committed by citizens of lower social class in society, such as those which inflict direct harm on the person or property of others. This is in contrast to white-collar crime, which is generally committed by citizens of higher social class, who are more likely to be presented with the opportunity to commit such crimes.” (Blue Collar Crime). Blue collar crimes are more likely to be of a violent nature and committed by people in a lower economic position. Although White collar crime can be extremely harmful, it is not generally physical, or physically damaging and for the most part committed by people of a higher social status. For the purposes of this paper, blue collar crime as it has been defined will be the focus.

which is governed by the state. What are the current waste management plans in Sydney? There are many waste disposal units set up in Sydney in public areas and in individual’s households.

Deepwater horizon oil spill and environmental crime. Nikolay Solovyev Keiser University White Collar and Economic Crime CCJ4644 Ph.D. Vincent Giordano April 08, 2017 Abstract Identify a case of environmental crime. Discuss what occurred in this case (the background and details of the case). Identify the harm caused by the event. Who was arrested and what was the punishment for the offenders (if any). Conclude with the long term or present effect as a result of this crime.

CPTED and COP Revision CTPED or Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is defined as “The prevention strategy which outlines how the physical environments can be designed in order to lessen the opportunity for crime.” (Queensland Police Department.) CPTED not only is defined by this definition, but it focuses on four