The U.S. Administrative State and the Protection of Environmental Crime Victims

This accessible book provides the first comprehensive analysis of environmental crime victims within criminal prosecutions in the United States. By combining empirical analysis of criminal investigations undertaken by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983-2022 with narrative discussion of numerous related criminal prosecutions, it provides novel insights to help advance a stronger empirical understanding of how the administrative state protects victims of environmental harm, punishes environmental offenders, and aids in furthering the development of an environmental victimology.

1. Introduction. - 2. Cops on the Beat and Victims in the Street. - 3. Employees as Victims. - 4. When Companies Victimize the Public. - 5. When Individuals Victimize the Public. - 6. Towards an Environmental Victimology. - 7. Protecting Victims of Environmental Crime.