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2 results foundAuthor: Walters, Reece Title: Crime is in the Air: Air Pollution and Regulation in the UK Summary: This briefing draws attention to an area of harm that is often absent from criminological debate. It highlights the human costs of air pollution and failed attempts to adequately regulate and control such harm. Arguing for a cross disciplinary ‘eco-crime’ narrative, the author calls for greater understanding of the far-reaching consequences of air pollution which could set in train changes which may lead to a ‘more robust and meaningful system of justice’. Describing current arrangements in place to control and regulate air pollution, the briefing draws attention to the lack of neutrality in current arrangements and the bias ‘towards the economic imperatives of free trade over and above the centrality of environmental protection’. While attention is often given to direct and individualised instances of ‘crime’, the serious consequences of air pollution are frequently neglected. The negative effects of pollution on health and well-being are often borne by people already experiencing a range of other disadvantages. In a global and national context, it is often the poor who are affected most. Ultimately, political and economic imperatives have historically helped to shape legal and regulatory regimes. Whether this is an inherent flaw in current systems or something that can be overcome in favour of dealing with more wide-ranging harms is an area that requires further discussion and debate. Details: London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Kings' College London, 2009. 12p. Source: Internet Resource; Briefing 8 Year: 2009 Country: United Kingdom URL: Shelf Number: 119554 Keywords: Air PollutionOffenses Against the Environment |
Author: Herrnstadt, Evan Title: Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata Summary: A large and growing literature documents the adverse impacts of pollution on health, productivity, educational attainment and socioeconomic outcomes. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence that air pollution causally affects criminal activity. We exploit detailed location data on over two million serious crimes reported to the Chicago police department over a twelve-year period. We identify the causal effect of pollution on criminal activity by comparing crime on opposite sides of major interstates on days when the wind blows orthogonally the direction of the interstate and find that violent crime is 2.2 percent higher on the downwind side. Consistent with evidence from psychology on the relationship between pollution and aggression, the effect is unique to violent crimes - we find no effect of pollution on the commission of property crime. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015. 41p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper 21787: Accessed January 13, 2016 at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21787.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21787.pdf Shelf Number: 137561 Keywords: Air PollutionViolent CrimeWeather |