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Flashcards in Green Crime Deck (3)
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Beck

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In today’s late modern society we can now provide adequate resources for all. Yet this massive increase in productivity and the technology that creates new dangers we have never faced before.

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White

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Anthropocentric- the view that assumes humans have the right to dominate nature for their own ends and puts economic growth before the environment.
Ecocentric- humans and their environment are independent so both a reliable to exploitation.

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Schwendinger

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We should define crime in terms of the violation of basic human rights rather than the breaking of legal rules.