Wasting opportunities – prevention of illicit crossborder waste trafficking

auteurs Iina Sahramäki
  Serena Favarin
  Shanna Mehlbaum
  Ernesto Savona
  Toine Spapens
  Terhi Kankaanranta
tijdschrift EJPS (ISSN: 2034-760X)
jaargang Volume 5
aflevering Issue 2. November-December 2017
onderdeel Articles
publicatie datum 30 november 2017
taal English
pagina 61
keywords environmental crime, crime script, waste crime, illicit waste trafficking, situational crime prevention
samenvatting

This study aims to construct a consolidated crime script of cross-border illicit waste trafficking by
analysing similarities in modus operandi. In addition, factors enabling illicit waste trafficking were
studied. Research questions were analysed from a situational crime prevention point of view by
applying crime script analysis to 13 judiciary case studies of illicit cross-border waste trafficking
obtained from the Netherlands, Italy and Finland. The findings suggest that the potential offender
usually has advanced knowledge of the waste market and of the legislation and regulation. The
case studies also suggest that the lack and misuse of appropriate licenses and falsified documentation,
as well as taking advantage of illicit and licit networks in facilitating activities, are prevailing
characteristics in the illicit cross-border trafficking of waste. Despite the small number of cases,
the findings imply the need to focus crime prevention efforts on the early stages of the crime
commission process, such as planning the crime.