This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing. It
uses the theory of convenience throughout to examine financial
motives, attractive opportunities, and personal willingness to explain
deviant behavior. This book focusses primarily on the case study of
the Island of Tjøme in Norway, an attractive resort where building
permits were repeatedly granted to rich people in a protected zone
along the shoreline. This book investigates how these crimes were
detected and investigated by police over a few years with the help of
whistleblowers. It discusses the interplay between the potentially
corrupt public officials, professionals like architects and attorneys,
and rich individuals, as an interesting and challenging arena for law
enforcement. It covers attorneys’ defense strategies, evaluates
private internal policing, and provides insights for those
investigating individuals involved in environmental crime. It also
examines the Vest Tank toxic waste dumping case and the resulting
explosion where unusually both the chairperson and the chief executive
were successfully sentenced to prison because of environmental crime,
unlike many other environmental crime cases where individuals avoid
prison. The case studies are drawn from Norway to supplement more
well-known casestudies from the USA.
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The Case of Tjøme Island
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783030741846
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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