- The drugs trade; green crimes; immigrant smuggling; arms trafficking; international terrorism. More examples on page 127.
- Late modern society, which is threatened by risks that are human-made and have never been faced before, such as global warming and nuclear accidents.
- An organisation dependent on global connections, but that still has a local network.
- You can see clearly what is or is not a crime.
- Many harmful actions are not in fact against the law, or may be against the law in one country but not in another.
- The study of environmental harm and of harm caused by the powerful (e.g. states, big business).
- An anthropocentric view is a human-centred view that assumes humans have the right to dominate the environment; an ecocentric view sees humans and their environment as interdependent, so that environmental harm hurts humans also.
- Primary green crimes are crimes that directly involve harm to the environment (e.g. destroying the rainforest); secondary green crimes are crimes that result from the flouting of rules designed to prevent environmental harm (e.g. breaking laws against dumping toxic waste).
- Illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by, or with the complicity of, state agencies.
- Ways that are used by delinquents and by the state to justify their crimes, e.g. denial of victim, of injury or of responsibility.
Below: the entrance to Auschwitz, one of the concentration camps where the Nazi state murdered six million Jews, and millions of Gypsies, Slavs, political opponents, disabled people, homosexuals and others.
