Cleaning Up Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Crisis of Capitalism

Angus Nurse's book examines corporate environmental crime and illegal activities, arguing that they are often deliberate and that corporations understand that they will often be allowed to continue with polluting and non-compliant behavior due to fines and settlements rather than criminal prosecution. It explores biopiracy, oil company behavior, regulation of corporate social responsibility and environmental responsibility, analysis of environmental legislation, and state-corporate crime and air pollution.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 196 pages
Publication date: 25 January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title, "Corporate Environmental Crime and Illegal Activities: A Green Criminological Perspective" by Angus Nurse, delves into the contemporary reality of corporate environmental crime and illegal activities that have become normalized within many major corporations. Nurse argues that corporate environmental offending is often deliberate and that corporations understand that they will often be allowed to continue with polluting and non-compliant behavior because the likely enforcement responses are fines and settlements rather than criminal prosecution. Using several case studies, Nurse explores biopiracy and the rights of indigenous peoples, the behavior of oil companies in African states, the regulation of corporate social responsibility and corporate environmental responsibility, an analysis of contemporary environmental legislation and the prosecution of environmental harm, and state-corporate crime and air pollution. Dealing with these problems requires a wider notion of crime and wrongdoing that directly engages with the types of environmental offending that represent a threat to human populations and non-human nature irrespective of whether these are defined as crime by justice systems.

Weight: 299g
Dimension: 229 x 147 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793600561