Environmental Crime Book

Contents: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME * Defining "Environmental Crime" * A History of the U.S. Environmental Movement * Economics, Politics, and Environmental Protection * A Social Understanding of the Natural Sciences * A Review of Federal Environmental Legislation * ENFORCING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LEGISLATION: AN INTERAGENCY APPROACH * The Federal Environmental Regulatory Structure * State and Local Environmental Enforcement * Policing the Environment * Environmental Crime Prosecution at the County Level * Sentencing the Environmental Criminal * IDENTIFYING ESSENTIAL CONNECTIONS * Five Types of Environmental Criminals * Environmental Ethics, Criminal Law, and Environmental Crime * Mystification of Environmental Images: Identifying Environmental Crime * International Environmental Issues * Environmental Crime Research: Where We Have Been, Where We Should Go * CASE STUDIES * Case Study 1--Community Opposition to Hazardous Waste Incineration: The Case of ENSCO * Case Study 2--Hazardous Waste Regulation: Legacies of the Past and Projections for the Future * Case Study 3--Rocky Flats: A Plea Bargain in Public View * Case Study 4--Controversy Amid Controversy: Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act * Case Study 5--Environmental Crimes at the U.S.-Mexico Border * Comments in Closing * Appendixes * Index