Abstract

MUCCHIELLI, Laurent. For a sociology of environment crime. Reflections on the case of pesticides in France. Forum Sociológico [online]. 2020, n.37, pp.19-26.  Epub Aug 05, 2021. ISSN 0872-8380.  https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.9412.

The issue of environmental and health disasters caused by human economic activities has been increasingly publicized since the 1970s. Environmental sociology and then sociology of risk have been developed in the United States and then in Europe. But it is only very recently that the sociology of deviance has taken up these subjects, questioning the existence of delinquent practices that sometimes play a major role in the perpetuation of threats. It is inspired by the tradition of research on White Collar Crime initiated by Edwin Sutherland, and more precisely by research on Corporate Crime. This article attempts to contribute to the constitution and problematization of this relatively new field of research in continental Europe. It also illustrates it through the example of soil and water pollution by pesticides used massively in French agriculture.

Keywords : environnemental crime; corporate crime; soil and water pollution; pesticides.

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