Overview
- Challenges the image of New Zealand as being “clean, green” and at the forefront of environmental legislation
- Contains some practical advice for legislators and regulatory authorities
- Discusses the relevance of its findings to jurisdictions outside of New Zealand
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology (PSGC)
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About this book
This book provides a critical study of environmental regulation and its enforcement in New Zealand, situated within green criminology. It seeks to address the question of whether the offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 are 'working', by drawing on a range of sources including: central government data, local government policies and reports on enforcement, information requests of councils, studies of local authority enforcement behaviour and case law to. Through highly layered and richly textured analysis, the project exposes the problems that can arise when an expansive approach is taken to offences, penalties and institutional arrangements in an environmental regulatory statute. It emphasizes how discussions of harm and what should be unlawful will ensure that law-makers' enforcement tools will align with their goals for punishment. It examines higher-level issues such as ‘wrongfulness’ and ‘criminality’ in the environmental regulatory context and explores the relevance of its findings to jurisdictions outside of New Zealand. It also discusses the pros and cons of criminalisation and punishment versus restoration. It speaks to those interested in green criminology, regulatory compliance and enforcement, and applications of criminal law.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Scene
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Establishing the Framework for Assessment
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Concluding
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mark Wright is Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Before then he worked on regulatory prosecutions, in particular prosecutions under New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Responding to Environmental Crimes
Book Subtitle: Lessons from New Zealand
Authors: Mark Wright
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89250-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89249-4Published: 10 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89252-4Published: 11 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89250-0Published: 09 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-269X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2703
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 240
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Criminology, Crime Control and Security, International Criminal Law , Civil Law, Environmental Geography