The Relationship Between Moral Judgments and Causal Explanations of Everyday Environmental Crimes

Rodríguez, Ana María Martín; Hernández, Bernardo; Hess, Stephany; Ruiz, Cristina; Alonso, Isabel

doi:10.1007/s11211-013-0188-9

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“…Accordingly, they agreed that the main difficulties that they found were organizational, such as not having enough resources or personnel available in certain situations in which they were needed. Likewise, it is worth noting that some participants, answering an open question of the questionnaire, spontaneously pointed to political interests and unfinished sanctioning processes when asked about other difficulties, in line with findings of Du Reed [31], Martín et al [48], Hester et al [21] and Eliason [24].…”

Section: Conservation Officers' Perceptions Of Their Working Conditio...supporting

confidence: 79%

“…The reasons they gave for not doing so in the rest of the cases were that they believed that, in those specific situations, it was better to educate than to report people and, again, that transgressions would remain unpunished. It is interesting to see how these difficulties and reasons for not intervening are similar to those given by COs in Sweden [31], and relate to those of the general public, also obtained in this study's setting [48]. In Martín et al's study [48], for example, among the justifications for environmental transgressions with more weight were "Those who enforce the law are the first to break it", and "Authorities place too many obstacles that leave no other choice".…”

Section: Conservation Officers' Perceptions Of Their Working Conditio...supporting

confidence: 61%

“…It is interesting to see how these difficulties and reasons for not intervening are similar to those given by COs in Sweden [31], and relate to those of the general public, also obtained in this study's setting [48]. In Martín et al's study [48], for example, among the justifications for environmental transgressions with more weight were "Those who enforce the law are the first to break it", and "Authorities place too many obstacles that leave no other choice". Likewise, COs' claims about the lack of institutional support are consistent with one of the sources of stress reported previously for park rangers and game wardens in US: the perceived lack of communication and/or agreement with authorities and institutions, especially prosecutors and judges [21,24].…”

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confidence: 61%

“…COs' perception of the lack of agreement with these authorities on the seriousness and the need to punish environmental offenses is one of the reasons they give for not intervening. This perception is shared by park ranges and game wardens in US [21,24], by COs in Swe-den [31], and by the general public in this study's setting [48], suggesting a need to consider it in interventions across borders and continents.…”

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confidence: 79%

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Conservation Officers’ Perceptions of Their Working Conditions and Their Enforcement of Environmental Law in a Territory of High Environmental Protection

Martín,

Rosales,

Hernández

2023

Sustainability

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Environmental protection laws are useful tools for promoting sustainability by eradicating anti-environmental behavior while encouraging alternative sustainable behaviors. However, the achievement of these goals relies on the psychosocial processes underlying the behaviors of the people in charge of the enforcement of these laws. Conservation officers play a central role in the enforcement of these laws, but their intervention behavior has not been assessed in relation to their perceptions of their working conditions. To fill this gap, a questionnaire was developed and administered to 128 conservation officers from four public authorities responsible for enforcing environmental law in a territory with a high level of legal environmental protection. The main results show that the participants have similarities and differences with conservation officers from other territories in their perception of their working conditions. Likewise, it was found that self-efficacy and satisfaction influence their intervention behavior, both directly and through their goals. The role of descriptive social norms as well as the relation of collective efficacy and self-efficacy and satisfaction were also revealed. Policy implications of these findings involve the need to improve communication between prosecutors, judges and conservation officers, as well as the enhancement of conservation officers’ collective efficacy, self-efficacy and skills used to educate people in avoiding damaging the environment and collaborating in its protection.

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Section: Conservation Officers' Perceptions Of Their Working Conditio...supporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Conservation Officers' Perceptions Of Their Working Conditio...supporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Conservation Officers' Perceptions Of Their Working Conditio...supporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Implications For Policy Practice And/or Programsmentioning

confidence: 79%

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Conservation Officers’ Perceptions of Their Working Conditions and Their Enforcement of Environmental Law in a Territory of High Environmental Protection

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Hernández

2023

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“…Even victimologists have dedicated scarce attention to the victims of EC (Skinnider, 2011). Some empirical investigations have analyzed peoples' perceptions of EC (Martín et al, 2013), and only very recently a study has taken into account the perspective of environmental victims themselves (Barclay and Bartel, 2015). The present study is a contribution to this nascent literature; it will do so through the lens of political ecology by investigating the self-perception of being a victim of EC.…”

Section: Environmental Crimes and The Political Ecology Of Diseasementioning

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Political ecology of health in the Land of Fires: a hotspot of environmental crimes in the south of Italy

D’Alisa

Germani

Falcone

et al. 2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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Environmental crimes, if they are perceived as victimless, have not received the appropriate governmental response and have been frequently ranked low on the law enforcement priority list, punished with lenient or no administrative sanctions. This has contributed to an underestimation of the immediate consequences of environmental crimes, which can go undetected for lengthy periods. On the contrary, the mismanagement and illegal trafficking of waste in the Land of Fires, an area in the Campania region in the South of Italy, has been experienced as a 'victimful' crime. Using a political ecology of health approach, and integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, we investigate how the perception of being a victim of waste-related environmental crimes has been magnified by evidence of serious disease outcomes. Health concerns have become a central issue in the resurgence of grassroots movements against waste mismanagement in Campania. Keywords: Environmental crime, political ecology of health, waste conflict, Campania RésuméLes crimes contre l'environnement, s'ils sont perçus comme sans victimes, n'ont pas reçu la réponse gouvernementale appropriée et ont souvent été classés parmi les moins prioritaires dans la liste des priorités de l'application de la loi, sanctionnés par des sanctions administratives clémentes. Cela a contribué à une sous-estimation des conséquences immédiates des crimes contre l'environnement, qui peuvent passer inaperçus pendant de longues périodes. Au contraire, la mauvaise gestion et le trafic illicite de déchets dans le Land of Fires, région de la Campanie dans le sud de l'Italie, ont été vécus comme un crime avec «victimes». En utilisant une approche «écologie politique de la santé» et en intégrant des méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives, j'examine comment la perception d'être victime de crimes environnementaux liés aux déchets a été amplifiée par des preuves de graves conséquences pour la santé. Les problèmes de santé sont devenus une question centrale dans la résurgence des mouvements populaires contre la mauvaise gestion des déchets en Campanie. Mots-clés: Crimes environnementaux, écologie politique de la santé, conflits de déchets, Campanie ResumenLos delitos ambientales se perciben a menudo como "crímenes sin víctimas", por lo que durante años no han recibido una respuesta apropiada por parte de los gobiernos ni tampoco han representado una prioridad para el poder judicial, siendo sancionados solo en ocasiones y con multas administrativas. Este enfoque ha contribuido a subestimar las consecuencias inmediatas de los crímenes ambientales, que pueden pasar inadvertidas durante largos periodos de tiempo. En contraste, la mala gestión y el comercio ilegal de residuos en la Tierra de los Fuegos, un área de la región de Campania, al Sur de Italia, se han vivido como "crímenes con victimas." Mediante este estudio, usando un enfoque de ecología política de la salud e integrando métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos, tenemos el objetivo de investigar cómo la contracción de grave...

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The Contribution of Green Criminology to the Analysis of Historical Pollution

Natali

2017

Historical Pollution

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The Relationship Between Moral Judgments and Causal Explanations of Everyday Environmental Crimes

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Conservation Officers’ Perceptions of Their Working Conditions and Their Enforcement of Environmental Law in a Territory of High Environmental Protection

Conservation Officers’ Perceptions of Their Working Conditions and Their Enforcement of Environmental Law in a Territory of High Environmental Protection

Political ecology of health in the Land of Fires: a hotspot of environmental crimes in the south of Italy

The Contribution of Green Criminology to the Analysis of Historical Pollution

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