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标题：Predictors of punishment for Environmental law breaches
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作者：María Esther Salazar Laplace, Bernardo,Hernández ; Ana María Martín y Stephany Hess
期刊名称：Medio Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano
印刷版ISSN：1576-6462
出版年度：2006
卷号：07
期号：01
出版社：Editorial Resma
摘要：Environmental crimes have been legally defined as transgressions of Environmental laws. However, this approach is considered limited from the studies on ecological justice because, among other factors, it does not take into account the social perception of environmental crime. This research has been designed from the ecological justice perspective and five types of environmental offenses were evaluated herein. The scales used referred to the seriousness of the transgressions, the degree of justification, the amount of annoyance produced, the consequences for the environment, the outcomes for people and the benefits obtained. These scales were used to predict the degree of the punishment that should be imposed. The results show that the best predictors of punishment for environmental offenders are the degree of justification, the amount of the annoyance produced, and the seriousness of the transgressions. Another finding of the research indicated that spills and breaches against the flora and the fauna are considered the worst transgressions by the participants. On the contrary, illegal building violations are considered of the least importance.
关键词：environmental crime, punishment, crime perception.