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ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY: PROFILING SPATIAL PATTERNS OF TRANSNATIONAL GREEN CRIMES

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PULKIT TRIVEDI DR. ALAKNANDA RAJAWAT
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ISSN 2582-6433
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Volume 3
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Green crimes rarely stay where they start. Timber is cut in one country, laundered through a processing plant in a second and sold in a third; toxic slops are loaded in a European port and surface on the streets of an African city. This paper asks a fairly simple question: can the tools of environmental criminology, built mostly to explain burglary and street robbery at the neighbourhood scale, be stretched to explain crime that is organised across continents? Using a doctrinal and secondary-source method, it reads routine activity theory, rational choice, crime pattern theory and green criminology against a set of decided cases and documented episodes, including the Probo Koala dumping, the Lacey Act prosecutions, the Tanzanian ivory trial of Yang Fenglan, Kiobel and Okpabi, the Indian Supreme Court’s hazardous-waste orders, and the ICJ’s decisions in Pulp Mills and Costa Rica v Nicaragua. The argument is that spatial profiling is useful only when place is treated as a chain of linked nodes rather than a single hot spot, and that courts have often moved faster than legislatures in building the accountability such a chain demands. The paper closes with a critical assessment of persistent gaps (weak data, displacement, corporate impunity, the unsettled status of ecocide) and a few modest proposals.   Keywords: environmental criminology; green criminology; transnational environmental crime; crime pattern theory; spatial analysis; wildlife trafficking; hazardous waste; ecocide

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Authors: PULKIT TRIVEDI & DR. ALAKNANDA RAJAWATRegistration ID: 1013617 | Published Paper ID: IJLRA13617 & IJLRA13618Approved ISSN: 2582-6433 | Country: Delhi, India

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ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY: PROFILING SPATIAL PATTERNS OF TRANSNATIONAL GREEN CRIMES

Authors: PULKIT TRIVEDI, DR. ALAKNANDA RAJAWAT

  • Journal IJLRA
  • ISSN 2582-6433
  • Volume 3
  • Issue 8
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