This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing. It uses the theory of convenience throughout to examine financial motives, attractive opportunities, and personal willingness to explain deviant behavior. This book focusses primarily on the case study of the Island of Tjøme in Norway, an attractive resort where building permits were repeatedly granted to rich people in a protected zone along the shoreline. This book investigates how these crimes were detected and investigated by police over a few years with the help of whistleblowers. It discusses the interplay between the potentially corrupt public officials, professionals like architects and attorneys, and rich individuals, as an interesting and challenging arena for law enforcement. It covers attorneys' defense strategies, evaluates private internal policing, and provides insights for those investigating individuals involved in environmental crime. It also examines the Vest Tank toxic waste dumping case and the resulting explosion where unusually both the chairperson and the chief executive were successfully sentenced to prison because of environmental crime, unlike many other environmental crime cases where individuals avoid prison. The case studies are drawn from Norway to supplement more well-known casestudies from the USA.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Theory of Crime Convenience
Chapter 3 Vest Tank Case Stud
Chapter 4 Tjøme Island Case Study
Chapter 5 White-Collar Attorneys
Chapter 6 Attorney Defense Strategies
Chapter 7 Tjøme Investigation Start
Chapter 8 Tjøme Investigation Progress
Chapter 9 Tjøme Investigation Conclusion
Chapter 10 Environmental Crime Perspectives
Chapter 11 Private Internal Policing
Chapter 12 CEO Crime Case Study
Chapter 13 Conclusion.

Gottschalk, Petter

Publikationen von Gottschalk, Petter

ISBN	978-3-030-74183-9
Artikelnummer	9783030741839
Medientyp	Buch
Auflage	1st ed. 2021
Copyrightjahr	2021
Verlag	Springer, Berlin
Umfang	XI, 286 Seiten
Abbildungen	XI, 286 p. 22 illus.
Sprache	Englisch