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Practical difficulties in prosecuting environmental offenders

Steven Molino
Senior Associate, ERM Mitchell McCotter

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

Molino examines the practicalities of sampling, testing and interpreting evidence gathered in environmental cases, drawing attention to evidential difficulties involved in prosecuting environmental offenders. He argues that prosecutions often fail due to insufficient or inadequate evidence or due to the nature of a particular offence or problems of access.