1,245
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

What about the environment? Assessing the perceived seriousness of environmental crime

, &
Pages 307-325 | Published online: 08 Dec 2011

References

  • Adeola , F.O. 2004 . Environmentalism and risk perception: Empirical analysis of black and white differentials and convergence . Society and Natural Resources , 17 ( 10 ) : 1 – 29 .
  • American Lung Association . 2010 . State of the air: 2010 , Washington, DC : American Lung Association .
  • Atlas , M. 2002 . There goes the neighborhood: Environmental equity and the location of new hazardous waste management facilities . Policy Studies Journal , 30 : 171 – 192 .
  • Brody , S.D. , Highfield , W. and Alston , L. 2004 . Does location matter? Measuring environmental perceptions of creeks in two San Antonio watersheds . Environmental Behavior , 36 ( 2 ) : 229 – 250 .
  • Brown , G.G. , Harris , C.C. and Reed , P. 2002 . Testing a place-based theory for environmental evaluation: An Alaska case study . Applied Geography , 22 ( 1 ) : 49 – 76 .
  • Bullard , R.D. 1990 . Dumping in Dixie: Race, class and environmental quality , Boulder, CO : Westview Press .
  • Bullard , R.D. 1994 . People of color environmental groups , Flint, MI : Charles Stewart Mott Foundation .
  • Bullard , R.D. 1996 . The legacy of American apartheid and environmental racism . St John's Journal of Legal Commentary , 9 : 445 – 474 .
  • Bullard , R.D. and Johnson , G.S. 2000 . Environmental justice: Grassroots activism and its impact on public policy decision making . Journal of Social Issues , 56 : 555 – 578 .
  • Bullard , R.D. and Wright , B.H. 1992 . “ The quest for environmental equity: Mobilizing the African American community for social change ” . In American environmentalism: The US environmental movement, 1970–1990 , Edited by: Dunlap , R.E. and Mertig , A.G. 39 – 49 . Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis .
  • Burns , R.G. and Lynch , M.J. 2004 . Environmental crime: A sourcebook , New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing .
  • Burns , R.G. , Lynch , M.J. and Stretesky , P. 2008 . Environmental law, crime, and justice , New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing .
  • Buttel , F.H. 1987 . New directions in environmental sociology . Annual Review of Sociology , 13 : 465 – 488 .
  • Campbell , H.E. , Peck , L.R. and Tschudi , M.K. 2010 . Justice for all? A Cross-time analysis of toxic release inventory facility location . Review of Policy Research , 27 ( 1 ) : 1 – 25 .
  • Chase , A. 1993 . Assessing and addressing problems posed by environmental racism . Rutgers Law Review , 45 : 335 – 369 .
  • Chiricos , T. , Padgett , K. and Gertz , M. 2000 . Fear, TV news, and the reality of crime . Criminology , 38 ( 3 ) : 755 – 786 .
  • Cohn , S.F. , Barkan , S.E. and Halteman , W.A. 1991 . Punitive attitudes toward criminals: Racial consensus or racial conflict? . Social Problems , 38 : 287 – 26 .
  • Cullen , F.T. , Clark , G.A. , Mathers , R.A. and Cullen , J.B. 1983 . Public support for punishing white-collar crime: Blaming the victim revisited? . Journal of Criminal Justice , 11 : 481 – 493 .
  • Cullen , F.T. , Clark , G.A. , Link , B.G. , Mathers , R.A. , Niedospial , J.E. and Sheahan , M. 1985 . Dissecting white collar crime: Offense type and punitiveness . International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice , 9 : 15 – 28 .
  • Cullen , F.T. , Link , B.G. and Polanzi , C.W. 1982 . The seriousness of crime revisited: Have attitudes toward white-collar crime changed? . Criminology , 20 : 83 – 102 .
  • Davidson , D.J. and Freudenburg , W.R. 1996 . Gender and environmental risk concerns: A review and analysis of available research . Environment and Behavior , 28 : 302 – 339 .
  • Department of Health and Human Services . 2011 . Agency for toxic substances and disease registry: Justification of estimates for appropriation committees , Washington, DC : US Department of Health and Human Services .
  • Dietz , T. , Kalof , L. and Stern , P.C. 2002 . Gender, values, and environmentalism . Social Science Quarterly , 83 ( 1 ) : 353 – 364 .
  • Dietz , T. , Stern , P.C. and Guagnano , G. 1998 . Social structural and social psychological bases of environmental concern . Environment and Behavior , 30 : 450 – 471 .
  • Dougherty , E.M. , Fulton , D.C. and Anderson , D.H. 2003 . The influence of gender on the relationship of wildlife value orientations, beliefs, and the acceptability of lethal deer control in Cuyahoga Valley National Park . Society and Natural Resources , 16 ( 7 ) : 603 – 623 .
  • Dunlap , R.E. 1991 . Trends in public opinion toward environmental issues: 1965–1990 . Society and Natural Resources , 4 : 285 – 312 .
  • Dunlap , R.E. 2002 . An enduring concern: Light stays green for environmental protection . Public Perspective , September/October, 10–14
  • Dunlap , R.E. and Scarce , R. 1991 . The polls—poll trends: Environmental problems and protection . Public Opinion Quarterly , 55 : 651 – 672 .
  • Dunlap , R.E. , Xiao , C. and McCright , A.M. 2001 . Politics and environment in America . Environmental Politics , 10 ( 4 ) : 23 – 48 .
  • Elliott , E. , Seldon , B.J. and Regens , J.L. 1997 . Political and economic determinants of individuals' support for environmental spending . Journal of Environmental Management , 51 : 15 – 27 .
  • Environmental Protection Agency . 2004 . The national water quality inventory: Report to Congress for the 2004 reporting cycle—A profile , Washington, DC : US Environmental Protection Agency .
  • Flynn , J. , Slovic , P. and Mertz , C.K. 1994 . Gender, race, and perception of environmental health risks . Risk Analysis , 14 : 1101 – 1108 .
  • Frank , N. and Lynch , M.J. 1992 . Corporate crime, corporate violence: A primer , New York : Harlow & Heston .
  • Gillroy , J.M. and Shapiro , R.Y. 1986 . The polls: Environmental protection . Public Opinion Quarterly , 50 : 270 – 279 .
  • Goff , C. and Nason-Clark , N. 1989 . The seriousness of crime in Fredericton, New Brunswick: Perceptions toward white collar crime . Canadian Journal of Criminology , 31 : 19 – 34 .
  • Gordon , R.A. , Bindrim , T.A. , McNicholas , M.L. and Walden , T.L. 1988 . Perceptions of blue-collar and white-collar crime: The effect of defendant race on simulated jury decisions . Journal of Social Psychology , 128 : 191 – 197 .
  • Grasmick , H.G. , Cochran , J.K. , Bursik , R.J. and Kimpel , M. 1993 . Religion, punitive justice, and support for the death penalty . Justice Quarterly , 10 : 289 – 314 .
  • Helmkamp , J. , Ball , R. and Townsend , K. 1996 . Definitional dilemma: Can and should there be a universal definition of white collar crime? , Morgantown, WV : National White Collar Crime Center .
  • Henrichs , R. 1992 . Environmental issues and the law . Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , 89 : 856 – 859 .
  • Holland , R.C. 1995 . Public perceptions of white-collar crime seriousness: A survey of an Australian sample . International Journal of Compared and Applied Criminal Justice , 19 : 91 – 105 .
  • Huffman , J. 1992 . An exploratory essay on Native Americans and environmentalism . University of Colorado Law Review , 63 : 900 – 920 .
  • Humphrey , C.R. and Buttel , F.H. 1982 . Environment, energy, and society , Belmont, CA : Wadsworth .
  • Jones , R.E. 1998 . “ Black concern for the environment: Myth versus reality ” . In Society and Natural Resources Vol. 11 , 209 – 228 .
  • Jones , R.E. and Carter , L. 1994 . “ Concern for the environment among black Americans: An assessment of common assumptions ” . In Social Science Quarterly Vol. 75 , 560 – 579 .
  • Jones , R.E. and Dunlap , R.E. 1992 . The social basis of environmental concern: Have they changed over time? . Rural Sociology , 57 : 28 – 47 .
  • Jones , R.E. , Fly , M.J. and Cordell , K.H. 1999 . How green is my valley? Tracking rural and urban environmentalism in the Southern Appalachian Ecoregion . Rural Sociology , 64 ( 3 ) : 482 – 499 .
  • Konisky , D.M. 2009 . The limited effects of federal environmental justice policy on state enforcement . The Policy Studies Journal , 37 : 475 – 496 .
  • Kormos , K.C. , White , D.C. and Brooks , C.I. 1992 . Sex differences in rated seriousness of crime . Psychological Reports , 70 : 867 – 870 .
  • Kwan , Y.K. , Chiu , L.L. , Cheong , W. and Kwan , P. 2002 . Perceived crime seriousness consensus and disparity . Journal of Criminal Justice , 30 : 623 – 632 .
  • Ladd , E. and Bowman , K. 1995 . Attitudes toward the environment: Twenty-five years after Earth Day , Washington, DC : AEI .
  • Lavrakas , P.J. 1987 . Telephone survey methods , Newbury Park, CA : Sage .
  • Lynch , M.J. 1990 . The greening of criminology: A perspective for the 1990s . The Critical Criminologist , 2 ( 3 ) : 3 – 4 . 11–12
  • Lynch , M.J. and Michalowski , R.J. 2006 . A primer in radical criminology , Monsey, NY : Criminal Justice Press .
  • Lynch , M.J. , Stretesky , P.B. and Burns , R.G. 2004 . Determinants of environmental law violation fines against petroleum refineries: Race, ethnicity, income and aggregation effects . Society and Natural Resources , 17 : 333 – 347 .
  • Marzulla , R.J. and Kappel , G. 1991 . Nowhere to turn, nowhere to hide: Criminal liability for violations of environmental statutes in the 1990s . Columbia Journal of Environmental Law , 16 : 201 – 225 .
  • McCleary , R. , O'Neil , M.J. , Epperlein , T. , Jones , C. and Gray , R.H. 1981 . Effects of legal education and work experience on perceptions of crime seriousness . Social Problems , 28 : 276 – 289 .
  • Mennis , J.L. 2005 . The distribution and enforcement of air polluting facilities in New Jersey . The Professional Geographer , 57 : 411 – 422 .
  • Mennis , J.L. and Jordan , L. 2005 . The distribution of environmental equity: Exploring spatial nonstationarity in multivariate models of air toxic release . Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 95 ( 2 ) : 249 – 268 .
  • Meyer , P.A. , Pivetz , T. , Dignam , T.A. , Homa , D.M. , Schoonover , J. and Brody , D. 2003 . “ Surveillance for elevated blood levels among children—United States, 1997–2001 ” . In Surveillance summaries , Washington, DC : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services . (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 12, vol. 52, pp. 1–24)
  • Miethe , T.D. 1982 . Public consensus on crime seriousness: Normative structure or methodological artifact? . Criminology , 20 : 515 – 526 .
  • Mohai , P. 1985 . Public concern and elite involvement in environmental-conservation issues . Social Science Quarterly , 66 : 820 – 838 .
  • Mohai , P. 1990 . “ Black environmentalism ” . In Social Science Quarterly Vol. 71 , 744 – 65 .
  • Mohai , P. 1992 . Men, women and the environment: An examination of the gender gap in environmental concern and activism . Society and Natural Resources , 5 : 1 – 19 .
  • Mohai , P. 1997 . Gender differences in the perception of most important environmental problems . Race, Gender, and Class , 5 : 153 – 169 .
  • Mohai , P. , Lantz , P.M. , Morenoff , J. , House , J.S. and Mero , R.P. 2009 . Racial and socioeconomic disparities in residential proximity to polluting industrial facilities: Evidence from the Americans' changing lives study . American Journal of Public Health , 99 : S649 – S656 .
  • Newman , G. 1976 . Comparative deviance , New York : Elsevier .
  • Pastor , M. , Sadd , J. and Hipp , J. 2001 . Which came first? Toxic facilities, minority move-in, and environmental justice . Journal of Urban Affairs , 23 : 1 – 21 .
  • Piquero , N.L. , Carmichael , S. and Piquero , A.R. 2008 . Research note: Assessing the perceived seriousness of white-collar and street crimes . Crime and Delinquency , 54 : 291 – 312 .
  • Pellow , D.N. 2004 . The politics of illegal dumping: An environmental justice framework . Qualitative Sociology , 27 : 511 – 525 .
  • Rauma , D. 1991 . The context of normative consensus: An expansion of the Rossi/Berk consensus model with an application to crime seriousness . Social Science Research , 20 : 1 – 28 .
  • Rossi , P.H. and Berk , R.E. 1997 . Just punishments: Federal guidelines and public views compared , New York : Aldine De Gruyter .
  • Rossi , P.H. , Waite , R. , Bose , C.E. and Berk , R.E. 1974 . The seriousness of crimes: A normative structure and individual differences . American Sociological Review , 39 : 224 – 237 .
  • Rossi , P.H. , Simpson , J.E. and Miller , J.L. 1985 . Beyond crime seriousness: Fitting the punishment to the crime . Journal of Quantitative Criminology , 1 : 59 – 90 .
  • Schrager , L.S. and Short , J.F. Jr. 1980 . “ How serious a crime? Perceptions of organizational and common crimes ” . In White-collar crime , Edited by: Stotland , G. and Stotland , E. 14 – 31 . Beverly Hills, CA : Sage .
  • Sellin , T. and Wolfgang , M. 1964 . The measurement of delinquency , Montclair : Patterson Smith .
  • Shelley , T.O. 2006 . Environmental threat, environmental crime salience, and social control , Doctoral dissertation, Florida State University .
  • Situ , Y. and Emmons , D. 2000 . Environmental crime: the criminal justice system's role in protecting the environment , Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage .
  • Spence , D.B. 2001 . The shadow of the rational polluter: Rethinking the role of rational actor models in environmental law . California Law Review , 89 ( 4 ) : 917 – 998 .
  • Stylianou , S. 2003 . Measuring crime seriousness perceptions: What have we learned and what else do we want to know? . Journal of Criminal Justice , 31 : 37 – 56 .
  • Sullivan , J.B. and Krieger , G.R. 2001 . “ Environment and health: Going into the 21st century ” . In Clinical environmental health and toxic exposures , 2nd , Edited by: Sullivan , J.B. and Krieger , G.R. 1 – 6 . Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins .
  • Taylor , D.E. 2000 . The rise of the environmental justice paradigm: Injustice framing and the social construction of environmental discourses . American Behavioral Scientist , 43 : 508 – 579 .
  • Thornburgh , D. 1991 . Criminal enforcement of environmental laws: A national priority . George Washington Law Review , 59 ( 4 ) : 775 – 780 .
  • Uyeki , E.S. and Holland , L.J. 2000 . Diffusion of pro-environmental attitudes? . American Behavioral Scientist , 43 : 646 – 662 .
  • Vogel , B. 1998 . Perceptions of crime seriousness in the African American community: Exploring the presence of consensus . Journal of Criminal Justice , 26 : 227 – 236 .
  • Warr , M. 1984 . Fear of victimization: Why are women and the elderly more afraid? . Social Science Quarterly , 65 : 681 – 702 .
  • Warr , M. 1989 . What is the perceived seriousness of crimes? . Criminology , 27 : 795 – 814 .
  • Wolfgang , M.E. , Figlio , R.M. , Tracy , P.E. and Singer , S.I. 1985 . The national survey of crime severity , Washington, DC : Government Printing Office .
  • Young , R.L. and Thompson , C.Y. 1995 . Religious fundamentalism, punitiveness, and firearm ownership . Journal of Crime and Justice , 18 : 81 – 98 .
  • Yu , X.Q.O. 1993 . Comparing perceptions and cultural orientations of students in China and America: A cross-cultural study of College students' judgment of crime seriousness , Buffalo : Doctoral dissertation, State University of New York .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.