Does environmental enforcement slow the treadmill of production? the relationship between large monetary penalties, ecological disorganization and toxic releases within offending corporations

Journal of Crime and Justice

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-247

  Stretesky, Paul B ^a   Long, Michael A ^b   Lynch, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological disorganization; environmental enforcement; green criminology; treadmill of production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896948411     PISSN: 0735648X     EISSN: 21589119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0735648X.2012.752254     Document Type: Article

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