Environmental crime and green criminology in South Eastern Europe—practice and research

Eman, Katja; Meško, Gorazd; Dobovšek, Bojan; Sotlar, Andrej

doi:10.1007/s10611-013-9419-0

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“…To sum up, this study support prior literature (Bisschop, 2010;Eman et al, 2013;Lynch and Stretsky, 2003;Marrewijk, 2003;Tomkins, 2005;van Uhm and Nijman, 2020;White, 2008White, , 2013 to conclude that environmental offences or crime in Malaysia is indeed a new form of criminality. The growing literature on green criminology worldwide in discussing or mitigating environmental issues must be recognised in Malaysia.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Finally, point three is being addressed as offences originated from human action, either they were being charged under individual or company names. As Eman et al (2013) highlighted, environmental crime can be referred to as a consequence of irresponsible human behaviour and illegal activities. Actual cases are explained as follows and in the form of a summary in Table 6.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The disaster has encouraged Lynch (1997) to call for green criminology development (Lynch et al , 2017). Since then, previous studies have widely discussed environmental issues from criminology perspectives (Bisschop, 2010; Eman et al , 2013; Lynch and Stretsky, 2003; Tomkins, 2005; White, 2008, 2013) and has discussed the term environmental crime as a new form of criminality or perhaps linked with other forms of crime (van Uhm and Nijman, 2020). The criminology perspective offers an etiologic classification in responding to crimes against the environment.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, Lynch and Stretesky (2014) argue that environmental crime is closely related to immoral human activities. Furthermore, environmental harms can be referred to as consequences of irresponsible human behaviour and illegal activities towards the environment (Eman et al , 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The environment is a vital source for humankind survival (e.g. food and medicine) and economic factor that can be used as resources for profit (Eman et al , 2013). Statistics (Table 1) showed that the private sector had spent RM9.131 billion on environmental protection from 2011 until 2014 (Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c).…”

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of environmental offences committed in Malaysia charged under the Environmental Quality Act 1974 (EQA1974). Design/methodology/approach This study used secondary data of the environmental court cases report by the Department of Environment (DOE) Malaysia from 2008 until 2016 to examine the nature of environmental offences based on the Treadmill of Production (ToP) approach. Findings In comparison with the GDP growth (Department of Statistic Malaysia, 2016), the findings support ToP argument that as far as the treadmill accelerates, the more would be the environmental crime committed. However, all offences charged were weighted more on the ecological additions rather than ecological withdrawn. The trend analysis showed a decreasing trend for all types of offences committed, reflecting that Malaysia's regulatory authorities are committed to fighting against environmental crime perpetrators. Therefore, all parties must be made to internalise the values of conducting business sustainably. Originality/value This paper is the first that examines the environmental offences committed in Malaysia using the ToP approach to analyse the nature of the crime committed in Malaysia associated with the growing literature of Green Criminology.

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