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By Matthew Hall

ISBN-10: 0415677009

ISBN-13: 9780415677004

In fresh years, the expanding concentrate on weather swap and environmental degradation has caused exceptional realization being paid in the direction of the felony legal responsibility of people, corporations or even states for polluting actions. those advancements have given upward thrust to a brand new sector of criminological research, known as ‘green criminology’. but in the entire theorising that has taken position during this region, there's nonetheless a marked absence of particular concentrate on these really pain damage due to environmental degradation. This ebook represents a special try to substantively conceptualise and view where of such ‘environmental sufferers’ in felony justice platforms either nationally and across the world.

Grounded in a comparative technique and drawing on serious criminological arguments, this quantity examines the various parts typically thought of by means of victimologists relating to sufferers of environmental crime and, extra broadly, environmental damage. those contain sufferers’ rights, reimbursement, remedy by way of felony justice structures and participation in that strategy. The booklet methods the difficulty of ‘environmental victimisation’ from a ‘social harms’ point of view (as against a ‘criminal harms’ one) therefore problematising the definitions of environmental crime stumbled on inside so much jurisdictions.

Victims of Environmental Harm concludes by way of mapping out the contours of additional examine right into a constructing eco-friendly victimology and the way this schedule may tell felony justice reform and coverage making at nationwide and worldwide levels.This ebook should be of curiosity to researchers throughout a couple of disciplines together with criminology, foreign legislation, victimology, socio-legal reports and actual sciences in addition to execs serious about coverage making processes.

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4 Summary and book structure Chapter 2 conceptualizes the scope of environmental victimization and its impacts upon those who are victimized. The chapter examines in particular how the impacts of environmental derogation and climate change are distributed Environmental harm and international law 23 among the world’s population and begins to explore the kind of support and redress mechanisms they require. The chapter also offers a new conceptualization of those affected by environmental harms: as victims of abuse of power, under the UN 1985 Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power discussed above.

Levinson (1996), for example, offers statistical evidence to the effect that ‘interstate differences in environmental regulations do not systematically affect the location choices of most manufacturing plants’ (p. 5). More recently, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management14 (2011) has argued that, far from causing unemployment and economic degradation in the northeast/mid-­Atlantic region of the US, the introduction of programs to promote clean transportation fuels will in fact create tens of thousands of jobs each year in the area: The results of the analysis suggest that the transition to lower carbon fuels could provide important energy security, climate change, and economic Identifying victims of environmental harm 33 benefits in the region.

24) Of course, such a view presents real difficulties for those seeking to develop legal systems for addressing environmental harms, as such a system must 16 Environmental harm and international law ultimately be based on concrete and predictable definitions of victimization. This apparent conflict between predictable legal rules and flexible notions of environmental harm will be a recurring issue throughout this volume, and the tackling of this debate an important outcome of this volume as a whole in Chapter 6.

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