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  • Environmental Law and Criminology
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  • Environmental Justice

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  • Environmental crimes, including harm to ecosystems and animals, are often inadequately addressed by criminal justice systems.
  • Corporate environmental wrongdoing is frequently treated as regulatory or administrative failure, not criminal.
  • Environmental crimes cause long-lasting, irreversible damage, unlike traditional offenses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of current environmental enforcement mechanisms.
  • To assess the capacity of these mechanisms to address corporate environmental offending.
  • To explore the link between neoliberal markets, profit motives, and corporate environmental crime.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of contemporary environmental enforcement strategies.
  • Examination of regulatory and administrative approaches to corporate environmental wrongdoing.
  • Exploration of the role of market structures and corporate attitudes in environmental crime.

Main Results:

  • Environmental enforcement often prioritizes regulatory compliance over criminal accountability.
  • Corporate environmental offending may be an inevitable outcome of profit-driven markets and anthropocentric views.
  • Existing systems struggle to penalize corporations effectively due to resources and legal expertise.

Conclusions:

  • Current enforcement mechanisms are often ill-equipped to handle corporate environmental crime.
  • The effectiveness of 'detection, apprehension, and punishment' is questionable for corporations.
  • Alternative strategies beyond traditional law enforcement may be required to address environmental crime.