Abstract
From an environmental protection perspective, the crucial issues pertaining to the policing of hazardous waste relate to both the vulnerabilities and limitations of current practices, and the potential issues that demand attention in the here and now, to alleviate future calamity. This paper describes the process involved in developing a vulnerabilities and limitations checklist that provides a relatively simple yet multi-pronged approach to assessing present and future environmental harms and crimes within the hazardous waste sector. Although it was not the intention of the authors to develop a generic checklist, this tool may prove useful to other industry sectors.
Highlights
From a criminal justice perspective, environmental protection is intimately linked to issues pertaining to crime, criminality and the potential to do harm
From an environmental protection perspective, the crucial issues pertaining to the policing of hazardous waste relate to both the vulnerabilities and limitations of current practices, and the potential issues that demand attention in the here and to alleviate future calamity
This paper describes the process involved in developing a vulnerabilities and limitations checklist that provides a relatively simple yet multi-pronged approach to assessing present and future environmental harms and crimes within the hazardous waste sector
Summary
From a criminal justice perspective, environmental protection is intimately linked to issues pertaining to crime, criminality and the potential to do harm. The waste management area presents numerous opportunities for crime [1]. This is acknowledged by the illegitimate international trade and transportation of hazardous wastes [2], the role of organized criminal syndicates in waste management [3], and the illegal dumping of waste by legitimate corporations [4,5]. From a criminological perspective, there is little knowledge of the scale of the problem in Australia, the types of criminality involved, or the precise nature of disposal (e.g., illegal dumping, combining illegal with legal waste, illegal export). Waste disposal management has been infiltrated overseas by organized criminals and the business of dumping waste in Australia is not immune to similar penetration. There have been a number of cases of corrupt conduct in the industry [7]. many different organisations are involved in the in-
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