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Lay Victims’ Conceptions of Environmental Crime and Environmental Injustice: The Case of the Chem-Dyne Superfund Site
Ist Teil von
Social justice research, 2020-12, Vol.33 (4), p.454-479
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This project explores lay victims’ conceptions of environmental crime and environmental injustice through in-depth interviews with a snowball sample of people affected by, and former employees of, the Chem-Dyne Superfund site in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. Qualitative content analysis revealed that participants used the following criteria to define
both
environmental crime and environmental injustice:
illegality, intentionality, harm and safety
, and
unfairness
. These findings have important implications for studies of environmental crime and environmental injustice: (1) Lay victims’ conceptions of environmental crime and environmental injustice are
multidimensional
concepts; (2) lay victims’ conceptions of environmental crime and environmental injustice are mostly
anthropocentric
; (3) there is significant conceptual
overlap
between environmental crime and environmental injustice in lay victim accounts; and (4) lay victims’ conceptions of environmental crime and environmental injustice are similar to, yet distinct from,
formal and academic definitions.