Environmental crime and punishment: Empirical evidence from the german penal code

Land Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 707-726

  Almer, Christian ^a   Goeschl, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EUROPEAN UNION; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

GERMANY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049279414     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.86.4.707     Document Type: Article

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