Overview
Discusses environmental crime by application of the theory of convenience
Includes a case study of corporate wrongdoing
Focuses on financial motives, attractive opportunities, and personal willingness
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 case studies from the USA.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Gottschalk has published extensively on fraud examination, white-collar crime, and knowledge management. He has held Chief Executive positions in industry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Detecting and Investigating Environmental Crime
Book Subtitle: The Case of Tjøme Island
Authors: Petter Gottschalk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74184-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74183-9Published: 01 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74186-0Published: 02 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74184-6Published: 31 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 286
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime Control and Security, Critical Criminology, Prison and Punishment, Organized Crime, Civil Law, Environmental Geography