Influence of socioeconomic factors on environmental crimes in the Brazilian Federal District

Authors

  • Renata Esteves Ribeiro Universidade de Brasília (UnB) – Campus Planaltina
  • Rodrigo Studart Corrêa Universidade de Brasília (UnB) – Campus Planaltina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v50i0.57692

Keywords:

environmental crimes, Brazilian Federal District Police, green criminology, multivariate linear regression

Abstract

Environmental damages and problems arise from complex processes made up of material and social factors. Different authors of green criminology, a branch that focuses on issues related to damages, transgressions and crimes against nature, advocate a conceptual approach related to poverty, poor health, corruption and corporate transgressions. Following such understanding, this study aimed to: i) check the influence of socioeconomic variables on environmental crimes recorded by the Brazilian Federal District Police between 2013 and 2016, and (ii) determine whether theories of traditional criminology apply to environmental crimes in the Brazilian Federal District – BFD. Socioeconomic data available in the District Household Sample Survey and records on environmental crime in BFD were subjected to multivariate regression and analysis of variance. Results indicated that people age range between "40 and 59 years old", residents who arrived in BFD after 2000 and per capita income were the variables that better explained environmental crime records. Results suggest that social and economic deprivation were not decisive to explain the occurrence of environmental crimes in BFD. A frequent relation between immigration and crime records points towards the theory of social disorganization, caused by community inability to organize themselves for the establishment of community self-controls.

Downloads

Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Ribeiro, R. E., & Corrêa, R. S. (2019). Influence of socioeconomic factors on environmental crimes in the Brazilian Federal District. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 50. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v50i0.57692

Issue

Vol. 50 (2019): Dialogues of Socio-Environmental Knowledge: challenges for epistemologies of the South

Section

Articles

License

Copyright on works published in this journal rests with the author, with first publication rights for the journal. The content of published works is the sole responsibility of the authors. DMA is an open access journal and has adopted the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Not Adapted (CC-BY) license since January 2023. Therefore, when published by this journal, articles are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercial) and adapt (remix, transform, and create from the material for any purpose, even commercial). You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes have been made.

The contents published by DMA from v. 53, 2020 to v. 60, 2022 are protected by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

DMA has been an open access journal since its creation, however, from v.1 of 2000 to v. 52 of 2019, the journal did not adopt a Creative Commons license and therefore the type of license is not indicated on the first page of the articles.