Looking for an effective environmental protection: Contributions from green criminology and economic criminal law

This paper will try to demonstrate that the efforts made (creation of new crimes and environmental policies) to protect the environment effectively are not enough. The fact that both criminal law and administrative law only react to the violation of legal norms is ineffective and the study of the causes of damage to the environment as well as possible actions subsequent to their injury is neglected. In this situation, we propose to complement the protection of the environment taking into account the developments in green criminology regarding the prevention and repair of environmental damage, highlighting the idea of prevention of environmental crime as well as possible damage compensation alternatives, resulting in a real and effective protection of the environment.