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Environmental Crime

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To study environmental crime in a perspective of law and economics, it is necessary to identify the protected species from an economic point of view and at the same time to give a legal definition of this kind of criminal behavior. The list of sanctions and their effective deterrence effects in cases of environmental crime are addressed in the final part of this entry.

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  1. Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Vita

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Di Vita, G. (2019). Environmental Crime. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_560

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