Evaluating Environmental Crimes Through the Prism of Criminological Theories

Research Questions

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  Can already established criminological theories be applied to explanations of ecological crime?

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  Which theories are best suited to explain ecological crime?

Methodological Framework

When creating the first part of the chapter, we used the following:

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  Descriptive method, which was used to study the already collected data and findings on criminology;

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  The historical method with which we tried to define the course of development of criminology and its influence circumstances on this development;

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  The comparative method with which we compared findings, definitions, classifications, and differences between criminological theories and their authors;

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  The compilation method with which we combined the obtained findings, data, and classifications;

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  The method of classification, with which we examined the various classifications of criminological theories;

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  The method of literary analysis, with which we examined the collected data on criminology and broken down into basic units, and these are;

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  Then combined the synthesis method into a coherent whole and concluded them, which we used in the second part;

In the second part, we tried to transfer the findings from the first part to the ecological field of criminality. We used:

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  Descriptive method, with which we examined the already collected data and findings on ecological criminality and its connection with criminological theories;

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  The comparative method, with which we compared the findings and data of various authors and studies regarding ecological criminality;

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  The compilation method used to combine the data from the literature;

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  The method of analysis, with which we broke down the obtained data into basic units, which we will use; combined the method of synthesis into a meaningful whole;

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  The method of analogy, with which we tried to convey already established findings and arguments from other similar types of crime to the area of ecological crime;

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  The method of deduction, with which we tried to verify already established theories