Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement

Edited by Susan Lea Smith, Professor of Law, College of Law, Willamette University, US and Iina Sahramäki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy,University of Helsinki, Finland

‘[E]xcellent quality and clearly written, by eminent scholars whose writing is cutting-edge and at the top of their fields. While the book chiefly addresses environmental crime and its erstwhile deterrence in the Global North, some attention is given to Africa, China, Latin America, and South Africa. The handbook offers a healthy variety of theoretical perspectives, some complementary, others antagonistic, some driven by abstract theory, others by empiricism.’

• ContentsPreface xviAcknowledgements xviiPART I THEORY AND REALITY1 Issues in defining and punishing environmental crimes: An introduction 2Susan Lea Smith2 Corporate environmental non-compliance and the effects of internalsystems and sanctions 36Sally S. Simpson and Jocelyn Evens3 The law and psychology of environmental crimes 68Lori Hoetger and Arden Rowell4 Environmental crimes and the treadmill of production: Neoliberalpolicy and neocolonialism 88Michael A. Long, Jericho R. McElroy and Michael J. Lynch5 Criminal enforcement of environmental laws cannot deter ecologicalharm or achieve environmental justice 106Paul Stretesky, Ekaterina Gladkova and Nathan Stephens-Griffin6 Environmental harms and innovative justice 128Rob White7 Methodological challenges in empirical research on environmental crimes 146Serena Favarin and Cecilia Meneghini8 Green crime prevention stirred and spiced: An agile approach toregulatory crime prevention 168Iina SahramäkiPART II TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONALENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES9 Transnational environmental crime 188Daan van Uhm10 International wildlife trade 202Ragnhild Sollund11 Illegal trafficking in plants and timber 227Angus Nurse12 Transnational environmental crime and corruption 246David Aled Williams13 Environmental crime and shadow economy: Evidence from Italy 263Anna Rita Germani and Angelo Castaldo14 International environmental crimes and ecocide 281Darryl RobinsonPART III THE GLOBAL SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES15 Environmental crimes and criminal enforcement in the United States 305Susan Mandiberg16 European environmental criminal law and enforcement 324Michael Faure and Mengxing Lu17 Green crimes and environmental harms in the Latin American region 346Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, José Luis Carpio-Domínguez and Jesús IgnacioCastro-Salazar18 Reflections from Africa: Limited state capacity and the rise ofenvironmental organized crime 365Derica Lambrechts19 Criminal enforcement of environmental law in South Africa 382Michael Kidd and Melissa Strydom20 Chinese environmental crimes and criminal justice 407Ying Wang