Environmental Crimes and Globalisation
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Running head: CRIME DEVIANCE AND SOCIETY
Crime Deviance and Society
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1CRIME DEVIANCE AND SOCIETY
Van Solinge, T.B., 2013. Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and a
criminological issue. In Global Environmental Harm (pp. 38-54). Willan
Tim Boekhout van Solinge, in this article discussed the violent fight that broke out
between the Amazon tribal groups and the police in Northern Peru on the jungle highway.
The tribal started their protest against the two decrees which was passed as a part of free-
trade agreement to allow the exploitation of the Peruvian rainforest like gas and oil
concessions. Much of this part was an indigenous land, and the tribal believed that the
decrees can be a threat to their way of living and their ancestral land.
In the modern trend of globalisation, deforestation for mining, residence, tropical
hardwood, land conversion or transformation of rainforest into an agricultural land has
become a growing issue. Deforestation is not only a cause of problem to the people who lives
in the forest, it has its effect on all over the mankind, plant and animal species and mostly on
the bio diverse ecosystem. It poses a threat to many of the species which survives in the wild.
Tropical deforestation causes a harmful effect on the humans, the other living beings and on
the ecosystem. The rainforest in Amazon contains almost 30 percent of the living known
species. The rainforest of Amazon contains almost 20 percent of the river water of the planet.
Approximately 5 percent of the rainforest is flooded, which creates a new ecosystem. It has
been observed that one hector of this rainforest contains a variety of trees more than that can
be found in the Europe.
Tropical rainforest deforestation is illegal. It should be considered as criminal.
Amazon is not only a home to the tribal but also to most of the living species in the world. A
deforestation of Amazon rainforest shall be harmful to the humans and other non-human
livings. Deforestation address the issue of ecological justice as well as the environmental
harm. Criminologists should pay more attention to the issue of illegal tropical deforestation as
Van Solinge, T.B., 2013. Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and a
criminological issue. In Global Environmental Harm (pp. 38-54). Willan
Tim Boekhout van Solinge, in this article discussed the violent fight that broke out
between the Amazon tribal groups and the police in Northern Peru on the jungle highway.
The tribal started their protest against the two decrees which was passed as a part of free-
trade agreement to allow the exploitation of the Peruvian rainforest like gas and oil
concessions. Much of this part was an indigenous land, and the tribal believed that the
decrees can be a threat to their way of living and their ancestral land.
In the modern trend of globalisation, deforestation for mining, residence, tropical
hardwood, land conversion or transformation of rainforest into an agricultural land has
become a growing issue. Deforestation is not only a cause of problem to the people who lives
in the forest, it has its effect on all over the mankind, plant and animal species and mostly on
the bio diverse ecosystem. It poses a threat to many of the species which survives in the wild.
Tropical deforestation causes a harmful effect on the humans, the other living beings and on
the ecosystem. The rainforest in Amazon contains almost 30 percent of the living known
species. The rainforest of Amazon contains almost 20 percent of the river water of the planet.
Approximately 5 percent of the rainforest is flooded, which creates a new ecosystem. It has
been observed that one hector of this rainforest contains a variety of trees more than that can
be found in the Europe.
Tropical rainforest deforestation is illegal. It should be considered as criminal.
Amazon is not only a home to the tribal but also to most of the living species in the world. A
deforestation of Amazon rainforest shall be harmful to the humans and other non-human
livings. Deforestation address the issue of ecological justice as well as the environmental
harm. Criminologists should pay more attention to the issue of illegal tropical deforestation as
2CRIME DEVIANCE AND SOCIETY
it has an overall impact of the future generation. The conflict that happened between the
habitants and the administration included the infringement of human rights of the forest
tribal. The person willing to exploit and develop the rainforest area received a thrash back
from the inhabitants. The Government was blamed for using its violence. The deadly fight
turned into a riot breaking the legal system.
The journal was full of quality information and helped in providing various useful
sights for the topic to relate the globalisation and neo-liberalism with the environmental
crime.
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., 2013. Toxic state–corporate crimes, neo-liberalism and
green criminology: The hazards and legacies of the oil, chemical and mineral
industries. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2(2), pp.12-26.
It can be said that environmentalism is a counterforce to neo-liberalism, which stands
for institutional practices and ideological commitments. In the modern neo-liberal
environment new issues are emerging. In this article the authors draw the attention towards
the issue of the practices used by the large oil, chemical and asbestos industries and the
illegal destruction of the environment made by them and their impact on the living beings.
Despoliation has been described by the authors as plundering the valuables or deprivation of
others from the valuables by force or deprivation from the benefit of choice of the others
about the action affecting them. This article explain the concept of green criminology and
further talks about the measures to prevent them.
The oil industry commits various environmental crimes in different ways. The
principle offence that the oil industry commits is the direct harms to the environment by
causing pollution. As per McHugh, illicit crude oil trading happens with the help of
smuggling, mingling and bunkering. In the absence of proper protection, the oil trading cause
it has an overall impact of the future generation. The conflict that happened between the
habitants and the administration included the infringement of human rights of the forest
tribal. The person willing to exploit and develop the rainforest area received a thrash back
from the inhabitants. The Government was blamed for using its violence. The deadly fight
turned into a riot breaking the legal system.
The journal was full of quality information and helped in providing various useful
sights for the topic to relate the globalisation and neo-liberalism with the environmental
crime.
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., 2013. Toxic state–corporate crimes, neo-liberalism and
green criminology: The hazards and legacies of the oil, chemical and mineral
industries. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2(2), pp.12-26.
It can be said that environmentalism is a counterforce to neo-liberalism, which stands
for institutional practices and ideological commitments. In the modern neo-liberal
environment new issues are emerging. In this article the authors draw the attention towards
the issue of the practices used by the large oil, chemical and asbestos industries and the
illegal destruction of the environment made by them and their impact on the living beings.
Despoliation has been described by the authors as plundering the valuables or deprivation of
others from the valuables by force or deprivation from the benefit of choice of the others
about the action affecting them. This article explain the concept of green criminology and
further talks about the measures to prevent them.
The oil industry commits various environmental crimes in different ways. The
principle offence that the oil industry commits is the direct harms to the environment by
causing pollution. As per McHugh, illicit crude oil trading happens with the help of
smuggling, mingling and bunkering. In the absence of proper protection, the oil trading cause
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