<p>Cleaning Up Greenwash is a stark reminder that environmental cleanliness only begins when humankind recognizes the environmental mess it has made. An indispensable must-read, Nurse's book is essential for anyone who cares about our present environment and the future of our planet</p>

- James Gacek, University of Regina,

Through a green criminological perspective, Angus Nurse examines the contemporary reality of corporate environmental crime and illegal activities that have become normalized within many major corporations. Arguably this is an inevitable consequence of a corporate culture that prioritizes profits and the smooth operation of market activities over environmental concerns coupled with the increased political power of major corporations that can act almost with impunity and where problems do occur, can literally buy itself out of trouble. These same corporations are broadly perceived as being responsible actors. However, Nurse argues that corporate environmental offending is often deliberate and that corporations understand that they will often be allowed to continue with polluting and non-compliant behavior because the likely enforcement responses are fines and settlements rather than criminal prosecution. Using several case studies, Nurse explores biopiracy and the rights of indigenous peoples, the behavior of oil companies in African states, the regulation of corporate social responsibility and corporate environmental responsibility, an analysis of contemporary environmental legislation and the prosecution of environmental harm, and state-corporate crime and air pollution. Dealing with these problems requires a wider notion of crime and wrongdoing that directly engages with the types of environmental offending that represent a threat to human populations and non-human nature irrespective of whether these are defined as crime by justice systems.

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Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

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Chapter 1: Defining Corporate Environmental Crime

Chapter 2: Critical Perspectives on Environmental Crime, Green Criminology and Corporate Environmental Offending

Chapter 3: The Causes of Corporate Environmental Crime and Criminality

Chapter 4: Cleaning Up Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Environmental Crime

Chapter 5: Creative Compliance, Constructive Compliance: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Criminal Entrepreneur

Chapter 6: Corporate Exploitation of Natural Resources (Oil and Gas and Timber Trafficking)

Chapter 7: Corporate Environmental Crime: Biopiracy

Chapter 8: Corporate Environmental Crime and Climate Justice

Chapter 9: Corporations and Human Rights

Chapter 10: Remedying Corporate Environmental Crime

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781793600547
Publisert
2022-02-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Vekt
467 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
196

Forfatter

Biographical note

Angus Nurse is head of Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Nottingham Trent University.