Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them

Shaw applies her criminology skills to green crimes. They are real crimes with real victims - all of us, but often take place away from enforcement. The author argues these crimes occur because of ease, impunity, greed, rationalisation, conformity and desperation. She examines case studies of Con Men (Volkswagen emissions fraud), Murderers (Brazilian environmental activists murdered by local landowners), Trafickers (a Chinese syndicate smuggling poached animals), Outlaws (illegal fishing in international waters, detected by Sea Shepherd), Thieves (illegal miners in South Africa) and the Negligent (Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by BP and Halliburton). She praises the investigators and enforcers who stand show more between us and the perpetrators of these green crimes. show less