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Contemporary Justice Review
Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice
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Environmental pollution: corporate crime and cancer mortality

Rebecca S. Katz Sociology and Criminology, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, 40351, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 97-125 | Received 03 Aug 2010, Accepted 23 Dec 2011, Published online: 20 Jan 2012
 
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Abstract

Corporate crime remains more costly and arguably more harmful than street crime and such harms include environmental, air, and water pollution resulting in increasing cancer mortality rates around the globe. More importantly, these corporate crimes are global in nature and facilitated by transnational corporations’ capture of the USA Environmental Protection Agency.

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