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Slachtoffers van economie

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Abstract

Environmental criminality - Environmental criminality can be defined as behaviour which, by disturbing the physical environment, causes physical, mental or social damage to individuals, groups or societies or is liable to cause such damage. The characteristics of environmental criminality are the following: a small number of offenders; a large number of victims; a relative invisibility of the offender and the invisibility of the development process of the crime; inequality of power between offender and victims; relative immunity of the offender; localization of the problem to the group of immediate victims; environmental criminality is crime in a law-making sense. We want to make a distinction between the severity and the seriousness of crime. The severity of crime is measured by the harm done, the number of victims and the amount of damage. These are to some extent rational factors, which are measurable objectively for a number of offenses and can be weighed subjectively for a number of other offenses. The seriousness of crime is an emotional attribution of negatives to criminal behaviour. No doubt environmental criminality belongs to the severe crimes.

How to Cite:

Hoefnagels, P., (1975) “Slachtoffers van economie”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 20(3-4), 342–356. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.96012