Deck 19: The Police and Policing

Question 1

Regardless of divisions into nation-states, the planet constitutes a single ecosystem, defined as the system composed of the interaction of all living organisms and their natural environment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Why should climate change be of interest to criminologists?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Four main primary green crimes were introduced in the chapter in which the environment and non-human species as well as humans are harmed, damaged or degraded through human actions. What are they?

A)Crimes of air pollution
B)Crimes of deforestation
C)Crimes of food production
D)Crimes against animals
E)Crimes of water pollution

Answer 3

A, B, D, E

Question 4

The plundering of the Earth´s resources has only recently been thought of as a crime but there is increasing recognition of the problems of wasteful over-consumption and exploitation. In their approach to these issues, criminologists may adopt which two startegies?

A)legal-procedural approach
B)policy approach
C)psychological approach
D)critical or socio-legal approach
E)economic approach

Question 5

Which of the following were used in this chapter to describe criminology´s interest in the environment?

A)Green criminology
B)Eco-crime
C)Environmental crime
D)Sustainable criminology
E)Eco-global criminology

Question 6

The world has lost half of its forests over the past 8,000 years and, just in the latter part of the twentieth century, between 1960 and 1990, about what per cent of the world´s tropical forest was lost?

A)0.01
B)0.02
C)0.05
D)0.1
E)0.2

Question 7

The rate of growth in carbon emissions is around what per cent per year?

A)0.02%
B)0.2%
C)2%
D)2.2%
E)20%

Question 8

One set of distinctions explored in the chapter and devised by White (2008: 98-9) was a threefold grouping: which one was it?

A)Green, Brown and White
B)Dangerous, Problematic and Potentially damaging
C)High, Medium and Low risk
D)Tropical, Sub-Saharan and Tundra
E)Animal, Vegetable and Mineral

Question 9

Green criminology takes ´pollution´ as a central concept and addresses violations of what have been variously termed ´environmental morality´, ´environmental ethics´ and ´animal rights´ (Beirne and South, 2007: xiii)

Question 10

Is there a sound case for substituting harm for crime when considering green criminology?