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How effective are criminal prosecutions as a tool of environmental policy? In answering this question, which applies equally to traditional and market-based schemes, I will be drawing primarily on the experience in the United States with federal prosecution of corporations and corporate managers for environmental crimes.
Professor Smith was able to attend the Workshop on Beaucracy, Markets and the Environment, which gave rise to this anthology, due to a Fulbright Senior Scholar award from the Australian-American Educational Foundation and wishes to acknowledge the Foundation’s kind assistance.
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Smith, S.L. (1995). Changing Corporate Environmental Behaviour: Criminal Prosecutions as a Tool of Environmental Policy. In: Eckersley, R. (eds) Markets, the State and the Environment. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14022-0_11
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