NCJ Number
155614
Date Published
1994
Length
104 pages
Annotation
This document presents the executive summaries and descriptions of the methodologies of studies conducted by four major organizations for a 1995 United Nations research workshop on the role of criminal justice systems in environmental protection at the national and international levels.
Abstract
The studies were conducted by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany. Individual papers discussed international models for the criminal liability of enterprises under environmental law, environmental law enforcement, and empirical studies of the implementation of environmental criminal law in the Federal Republic of Germany, and environmental regulation in Australia. Another paper presented a European survey on the agencies responsible for the control of harm to the environment. Questionnaire, a field research guide regarding the nature and scope of data to be gathered in each country, and footnotes