Session 10 - Environmental crime and governance
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Chair: Dr. Charlotta Thodelius, Charlmers University, Safeplaces West, Sweden.
Environmental crime in Sweden, 2000-2017
Speaker: Richard Stassen, Vania Ceccato, KTH, Sweden, Email: richard.stassen@gmail.com
This research combines police records with newspaper articles (media archives) to report on trends in environmental and wildlife crime (EWC) in Sweden from 2000 – 2017. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistical techniques are employed in a spatial-temporal analysis of EWC in Swedish municipalities, which are split into three types: urban, accessible rural, and remote rural. Findings show that following the 2006 legal reform that increased possibilities for prosecuting EWC, the number of both police-recorded cases and newspaper articles increased and eventually stabilized. They also show that while the majority of EWCs are minor crimes, particularly in urban municipalities, many of the more serious crimes show chronic temporal and spatial patterns in rural and remote areas. The persistence of certain serious crimes over time is interpreted as an indication that the costs of breaking environmental law are low relative to economic gains.
Water governance, water crimes and policing water crimes – Slovenian perspectives
Speaker: Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor, Slovenia, meskog1@outlook.com
Due to the limited quantities of water, growing world population and its unique importance for living beings, water demands are increasing. In addition to the amount of water available, its quality is also essential. Water crimes include various types of crimes ranging from the pilfering of water from pipelines and water pollution to fraud and illegal trafficking of water, etc. Water crimes are challenging to detect, investigate, and prosecute. I take the Republic of Slovenia as a case study. Due to the geographical position, Slovenia has a wealth of natural resources. It is one of the smallest countries in Europe, but concerning water resources, it is one of the richest. In this presentation, I discuss the nature of crimes against water resources as well as challenges regarding water governance and policing water crimes.
New Methods to Enhance the Study of Environmental Crimes and New Instruments to Strengthen Crime Prevention
Serena Favarin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, Email: serena.favarin@unicatt.it
The special issue New Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Investigate Environmental Crimes published by the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice seeks to improve extant understanding of environmental crimes, advocate for the use of new methods through which to study this topic, and enhance the preventive measures to combat these crimes in many different urban and rural areas of the world. The special issue comprises expert contributions from multiple countries (i.e., Australia, Italy, Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom). The articles included in this issue employ different methodological approaches (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods) to analyze several types of environmental crime in different offline and online contexts around the world (e.g., environmental and wildlife crime (EWC) in urban and rural Sweden, the illegal harvesting of live corals in Indonesia and Fiji, environmental crimes in protected areas in Cambodia, online illegal trade in endangered plants, and illicit waste trafficking at the global level). Moreover, they present innovative methodological solutions to the study of environmental crimes and guide future researchers in how to construct databases to quantitatively investigate corporate environmental crimes.
Environmental crime in Sweden, 2000-2017
Speaker: Richard Stassen, Vania Ceccato, KTH, Sweden, Email: richard.stassen@gmail.com
This research combines police records with newspaper articles (media archives) to report on trends in environmental and wildlife crime (EWC) in Sweden from 2000 – 2017. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistical techniques are employed in a spatial-temporal analysis of EWC in Swedish municipalities, which are split into three types: urban, accessible rural, and remote rural. Findings show that following the 2006 legal reform that increased possibilities for prosecuting EWC, the number of both police-recorded cases and newspaper articles increased and eventually stabilized. They also show that while the majority of EWCs are minor crimes, particularly in urban municipalities, many of the more serious crimes show chronic temporal and spatial patterns in rural and remote areas. The persistence of certain serious crimes over time is interpreted as an indication that the costs of breaking environmental law are low relative to economic gains.
Water governance, water crimes and policing water crimes – Slovenian perspectives
Speaker: Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor, Slovenia, meskog1@outlook.com
Due to the limited quantities of water, growing world population and its unique importance for living beings, water demands are increasing. In addition to the amount of water available, its quality is also essential. Water crimes include various types of crimes ranging from the pilfering of water from pipelines and water pollution to fraud and illegal trafficking of water, etc. Water crimes are challenging to detect, investigate, and prosecute. I take the Republic of Slovenia as a case study. Due to the geographical position, Slovenia has a wealth of natural resources. It is one of the smallest countries in Europe, but concerning water resources, it is one of the richest. In this presentation, I discuss the nature of crimes against water resources as well as challenges regarding water governance and policing water crimes.
New Methods to Enhance the Study of Environmental Crimes and New Instruments to Strengthen Crime Prevention
Serena Favarin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, Email: serena.favarin@unicatt.it
The special issue New Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Investigate Environmental Crimes published by the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice seeks to improve extant understanding of environmental crimes, advocate for the use of new methods through which to study this topic, and enhance the preventive measures to combat these crimes in many different urban and rural areas of the world. The special issue comprises expert contributions from multiple countries (i.e., Australia, Italy, Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom). The articles included in this issue employ different methodological approaches (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods) to analyze several types of environmental crime in different offline and online contexts around the world (e.g., environmental and wildlife crime (EWC) in urban and rural Sweden, the illegal harvesting of live corals in Indonesia and Fiji, environmental crimes in protected areas in Cambodia, online illegal trade in endangered plants, and illicit waste trafficking at the global level). Moreover, they present innovative methodological solutions to the study of environmental crimes and guide future researchers in how to construct databases to quantitatively investigate corporate environmental crimes.
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