Green crime and environmental issues
Crimes against environment: pollution, wildlife trafficking, deforestation, corporate environmental damage; often unprosecuted or lightly punished despite major harms.
Real World
Shell's oil spills in the Niger Delta destroyed fishing communities and caused documented cancer clusters, yet the company faced no criminal prosecution — contrast this with the swift prosecution of individual shoplifters.
Exam Focus
Use the term 'social construction of crime' to explain why green crime is under-criminalised; this phrase signals evaluative thinking to examiners.
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