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Problems with defending crimes against the environment

Philip Clifford
Former Director, Policy Division, Department of Environment and Land Management, Tasmania; and
Sharon Ivey
Senior solicitor, Freehill, Hollingdale and Page, Western Australia

Published in:
Environmental crime : proceedings of a conference held 1-3 September 1993, Hobart
Neil Gunningham, Jennifer Norberry, and Sandra McKillop (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 21348 8 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1995
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 26)

Abstract

The authors address the difficulties associated with defending environmental offenders. They express concern about the application of criminal law to corporate offenders; the dilution of the criminal law's basic tenets; the ineffectiveness of traditional criminal sanctions; and some of the shortcomings of offence provisions.