Organized crime and the environment


Autoria(s): Walters, Reece
Contribuinte(s)

Bruinsma, Gerben

Weisburd , David

Data(s)

01/01/2014

Resumo

It has been recognized for some time that the liberalization of trade policies has had deleterious impacts on the world’s natural environment. The rapid expansion of globalized goods and services continues to create a human footprint with longlasting environmental consequences (White 2010). It is a footprint that represents rapid human activity and with it has come new commercial opportunities, not only for global businesses but also for organized criminal networks. Both the acceleration and by-products of global trade have created new markets as well as underground economies. As the opening quotation reveals, transnational environmental crime must become a policing priority as organized criminal...

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/66652/

Publicador

Springer

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/66652/1/Pages_from_prt_978-1-4614-5690-2_15.pdf

http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/criminology/book/978-1-4614-5689-6

DOI:10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_285

Walters, Reece (2014) Organized crime and the environment. In Bruinsma, Gerben & Weisburd , David (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, pp. 3368-3375.

Direitos

Copyright 2014 Springer

Fonte

Crime & Justice Research Centre; Faculty of Law; School of Justice

Palavras-Chave #160200 CRIMINOLOGY
Tipo

Book Chapter