Conference papers

Criminal law and environmental protection : overview of issues and themes

Nicola Pain
Assistant Secretary, Environment Review Branch, Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency

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)

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Abstract

Pain argues that recourse to criminal liability and sanctions is not an adequate solution to the problems apparent in the current cooperative regulatory system. She contends that civil law is more flexible and efficient than criminal law (which should be reserved for persistent and severe breaches of the law).