Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars : The Monitoring and Sanctioning of U.S. Water Pollution Crimes (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

Ozymy, Joshua/ Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell

Rutgers University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 202 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978845985

Full Description

For over four decades, the U.S federal government has undertaken efforts to police and prosecute environmental crimes to protect public health and the natural environment. Yet, we still know very little about how U.S. federal agencies have monitored and sanctioned water pollution violations and if these actions actually deter crime. In Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars, Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell Ozymy examined over 1,000 federal water pollution investigations and prosecutions undertaken by the U.S. EPA and Department of Justice from 1983-2023 to answer these questions. Their analysis provides the most comprehensive empirical examination to date of how the criminal enforcement of water pollution has evolved over time, patterns in prosecutions, and how criminals were sanctioned.

Contents

Preface
1 Punishing Environmental Crimes
2 Water Pollution and the Evolution of Criminal Enforcement
3 Tapped Out: Prosecuting Drinking Water Crimes
4 Thar She Blows: Prosecuting Ship Pollution Crimes
5 Water Worries: The Clean Water Act and Related Crimes
6 Towards a Framework for Understanding Federal Water Pollution Crimes
7 Punishing in an Age of Hostility
Notes
Index