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For many years, if businesses were caught dumping waste, it was treated more as a nuisance than as a crime; the common images of the criminal and the dumper were worlds apart. In Dangerous Ground, originally published in 1992, Donald J. Rebovich closes this perceptual gap, providing essential information about and analysis of hazardous waste crime and the hazardous waste criminal. This paperback edition includes new material, noting important changes since the book's original publication.

Rebovich finds that the criminal dumper is usually an ordinary businessman. The...

The book, from the perspective of law and criminology, centers on environmental crime, its commission, the types of entities that commit it, the laws enacted to prohibit it, how it is committed and effective means to control and prevent it. It explains the importance of technological advances, increased public knowledge of potential harm, public groundswell, and how, this leads to legislative action. The overlapping dimensions of public health, criminal justice, environmental law and science are addressed as inter-related issues. A profile of the offender, based on empirical evidence and...