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Responding to Environmental Crimes

Lessons from New Zealand

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  • © 2022

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Authors:
  1. Mark Wright

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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  • Challenges the image of New Zealand as being “clean, green” and at the forefront of environmental legislation
  • Contains some practical advice for legislators and regulatory authorities
  • Discusses the relevance of its findings to jurisdictions outside of New Zealand

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology (PSGC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Setting the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 3-19

  3. Establishing the Framework for Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. The RMA’s Offences and Their Context

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 23-42

    3. Regulatory Enforcement and the Criminal Law

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 43-76

  4. The Case Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Are the RMA’s Offences Effective?

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 79-112

    3. Explaining the Lack of Effectiveness: Constraints and Choices

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 113-147

    4. Are the RMA’s Offences Being Used Appropriately?

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 149-184

    5. Explaining the Inappropriate Use: Form Versus Substance

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 185-215

  5. Concluding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Lessons Learned

      • Mark Wright
      Pages 219-232

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 233-240
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About this book

This book provides a critical study of environmental regulation and its enforcement in New Zealand, situated within green criminology. It seeks to address the question of whether the offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 are 'working', by drawing on a range of sources including: central government data, local government policies and reports on enforcement, information requests of councils, studies of local authority enforcement behaviour and case law to. Through highly layered and richly textured analysis, the project exposes the problems that can arise when an expansive approach is taken to offences, penalties and institutional arrangements in an environmental regulatory statute. It emphasizes how discussions of harm and what should be unlawful will ensure that law-makers' enforcement tools will align with their goals for punishment. It examines higher-level issues such as ‘wrongfulness’ and ‘criminality’ in the environmental regulatory context and explores the relevance of its findings to jurisdictions outside of New Zealand. It also discusses the pros and cons of criminalisation and punishment versus restoration. It speaks to those interested in green criminology, regulatory compliance and enforcement, and applications of criminal law.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Mark Wright

About the author

Mark Wright is Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Before then he worked on regulatory prosecutions, in particular prosecutions under New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991.

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