Conference papers

The nature of environmental crime

Brian Robinson
Chairman, Environment Protection Authority, Victoria

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

Robinson outlines the development of the concept of environmental crime (both overseas and within Australia), tracing the establishment of Environmental Protection Authorities in Victoria and New South Wales and the creation of statutory environmental offence and penalty provisions.