Deck 15: Green Crimes and Green Criminology

Question 1

Which of the following would NOT be considered 'green crime'?

A) Wildlife trafficking
B) Large-scale air pollution
C) Deforestation
D) Burglary

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following best describes the legalist view of green crime?

A) Only harmful actions specified as prohibited by criminal law are crimes
B) Actions that are particularly harmful or violent even if they do not violate criminal law merit the definition of crimes
C) Any action that causes environmental harm falls under the green crime
D) Harm to the environment is not a crime

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following best describes the term Anthropocene?

A) A geological epoch indicating the period of response to climate change
B) A geological epoch indicating the period of significant human impact on the natural environment
C) The time it takes for the harmful environment-related activity to have an impact
D) A geological epoch indicating the period before humans made significant impacts on the natural environment

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following best describes environmental justice?

A) The distribution of environments in terms of human access to/use of natural resources and environmental harm to humans
B) Responses to harm to the environment
C) The consideration of environmental harm to humans and non-human entities
D) The consideration of environmental harm to non-human animals

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT an example of environmental justice?

A) Ecofeminism
B) Environmental racism
C) Species Justice
D) The red-green movement

Question 6

Which of the following best describes Species Justice?

A) The distribution of environments in terms of human access to/use of natural resources and environmental harm to humans
B) Responses to harm to the environment
C) The consideration of environmental harm to humans and non-human entities
D) The consideration of environmental harm to non-human animals

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT one of the approaches to policing green crime identified by White (2007)?

A) The social action approach
B) The regulatory approach
C) The legalist approach
D) The socio-legal approach

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the social action approach to policing green crime?

A) The use of current criminal law and improvement in regulation and law enforcement
B) The use of social regulation to reform existing systems of production and consumption
C) Social change through democratic institutions and citizen participation.
D) Reliance on existing enforcers of environmental harm regulation

Question 9

What systems/groups are typically responsible for the enforcement of environmental laws?

A) Administrative or civil law systems
B) Criminal Justice systems
C) Voluntary organisations
D) Corporations

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the social-legal perspective of green crime?

A) Actions that are particularly harmful or violent even if they do not violate criminal law merit the definition of crimes
B) Only harmful actions specified as prohibited by criminal law are crimes
C) Acknowledgement of symbiotic green crime
D) Considers changing social attitudes to environmental harm