Environmental Crime: Criminological Reflections

Stevanović, Aleksandar (2020) Environmental Crime: Criminological Reflections. In: The Criminal Law Protection of our Common Home: 7th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists, Rome, Italy, 11-12 November 2019. Maklu, Antwerpen, pp. 99-112. ISBN 978-90-466-1079-4

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Abstract

The aim of the paper is to discuss issues related to the criminological aspect of the phenomenon of environmental crime, especially taking into account the economic, industrial and cultural context. The author shows that all of these social categories have equal influence on the occurrence of the studied phenomenon and that mentioned social categories deserve identical treatment while considering phenomenon in question. In this paper, a number of important issues related to the normative side of environmental crime was considered in order to analyze the norms of criminal legislation, administrative rules and procedures at the comparative level and ratified international documents. The cases of non-compliance with certain documents, even by the leading countries of the world, have been pointed out, which implies that there is still a need for further development when it comes to the system of compliance with the normative framework. Critical analysis of environmental crime was supported by corresponding criminological theories and relevant statistics in order to validate the hypothesis of interaction of the social-economic influences on the environmental crime and their equal importance. The author specifically emphasizes the importance of environmental awareness, since the paper has shown that the shortage of such awareness opens up opportunities for the escalation of socio-economic factors leading to environmental crime and represents a kind of general precondition for conducting such crime.

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