Green Crimes and Dirty Money

Toine Spapens is Full Professor of Criminology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

This book brings together different perspectives on the financial aspects of environmental crime and harm from a green criminological viewpoint.

Introduction; Part I: Systemic drivers of green crimes; 1. Destruction and the philosophy of desire; 2. Environment, Conflict and Profit: Harmful resource exploitation and questionable revenue generation; 3. Eco-mafia and Environmental Crime in Italy: Evidence from the Organised Trafficking of Waste; 4. Supply and demand: Regulation and the trade in illegal wildlife; Part II: Corporations, environmental violations and the money; 5. The 'Dieselgate' scandal: a criminological perspective; 6. Environmental Responsibility and Firm Value; 7. Too big to deter, too small to change? Profitability and environmental compliance in the waste and chemical industry in the Netherlands; 8. Waste crime from three criminological perspectives. Implications for crime control and harm prevention; Part III: Financial regulation and enforcement; 9. Green with Envy: Environmental Crimes and Black Money; 10. Wildlife and laundering: interaction between the under and upper world; 11. The limits of ecological modernisation to effectively manage greenhouse gas emissions. A case study of carbon market crime; 12. Financial investigation in environmental crime cases in the Netherlands; 13. Sentencing Environmental Offenders: It is Not Just About the Money;