Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars

The Monitoring and Sanctioning of U.S. Water Pollution Crimes

AvJoshua Ozymy,Melissa Jarrell Ozymy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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For over four decades, the US federal government has undertaken efforts to police and prosecute environmental crimes to protect public health and the natural environment. Yet, we still know very little about how US federal agencies have monitored and sanctioned water pollution violations and if these actions actually deter crime. In Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars, Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell Ozymy examined over one thousand federal water pollution investigations and prosecutions undertaken by the US EPA and Department of Justice from 1983 to 2023 to answer these questions. Their analysis provides the most comprehensive empirical examination to date of how the criminal enforcement of water pollution has evolved over time, patterns in prosecutions, and how criminals were sanctioned.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9781978845992

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Joshua Ozymy is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. His books include The U.S. Administrative State and the Protection of Environmental Crime Victims and Toxic Intent: Environmental Harm, Corporate Crime, and the Criminal Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws in the United States both coauthored with Melissa Jarrell Ozymy.Melissa Jarrell Ozymy is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her books include The U.S. Administrative State and the Protection of Environmental Crime Victims and Toxic Intent: Environmental Harm, Corporate Crime, and the Criminal Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws in the United States, both co-authored with Joshua Ozymy. She is also a coeditor of Palgrave Macmillan's Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology series.

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"This is, to my knowledge, the first book to offer a substantial, in-depth analysis of the use of the federal criminal environmental enforcement mechanisms available in the U.S. Relevant laws, policies, and history are reviewed in separate chapters that take up the enforcement of several major environmental regulations. The book provides an excellent overview of water pollution regulations and their enforcement at the federal level." - Michael J. Lynch, coeditor of The Handbook on Inequality and the Environment"Joshua and Melissa Ozymy have taken a substantial body of EPA prosecutorial data and organized it in a logical and easily understandable manner. Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars addresses an important topic: violations of laws designed to protect the foremost ingredient for life after air—water." - Raymond J. Michalowski, coeditor of State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government (Rutger)

Innehållsförteckning

1 Punishing Environmental Crimes 12 Water Pollution and the Evolution of Criminal Enforcement 143 Tapped Out: Prosecuting Drinking Water Crimes 284 Thar She Blows: Prosecuting Ship Pollution Crimes 465 Water Worries: The Clean Water Act and Related Crimes 656 Toward a Framework for Understanding Federal Water Pollution Crimes 817 Punishing in an Age of Hostility 106Notes 121Index 149