| dc.description.abstract | Bangladesh is an environmentally vulnerable country, where environmental crimes are massive
and common. However, the environmental crime prevention mechanism in the country is very
weak, and traditional policing is utilized to stop these crimes. Therefore, the green criminological
approach to prevent environmental crimes in Bangladesh is underdeveloped in many ways, with
a total absence of the green policing model. Hence, this study focuses on attaining a critical
understanding of environmental crimes in Bangladesh by exploring the key underlying factors
of environmental crimes. It also attempts to contribute to the environmental crime prevention
mechanism by recommending a green policing model, while identifying the key weaknesses of
the existing environmental crime prevention approach. This article implements the qualitative
technique of data collection, and the analysis is based on an in-depth interview of 25 respondents,
belonging to different categories of stakeholders, and participant observation. It also analyses the
content of newspapers to understand the patterns of environmental crimes in Bangladesh. This
article finds that environmental crimes are propagated by several political, economic, institutional,
and social elements, such as the political affiliation of criminals, economic profit from natural
resources, absence of institutional collaboration, and lack of social consciousness. The issue has
become further aggravated due to the weakness of the crime prevention mechanism. Thus, the
findings of this study suggest that environmental crimes in Bangladesh should be considered and
understood from green criminological perspectives and the development of a green policing
model would be effective in reducing environmental crimes in the country. | en_US |
