Corporate environmental violence and racism |
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Authors: | Paul Stretesky Michael J Lynch |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester, NY 14623-5603, USA;(2) Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA |
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Abstract: | Drawing upon a social justice framework, this analysis expands and integrates issues relating to corporate violence and environmental
justice to investigate the spatial distribution of chemical accidents across census tracts in Hillsborough County, Florida.
To test the hypothesis that corporate environmental violence (CEV) is more likely to impact blacks and Hispanics, data from
the 1990 census was combined with chemical accident data obtained from the U.S. EPA under the Accidental Release Information
Program (ARIP). The results of our bivariate analysis suggest that blacks and Hispanics reside closer to chemical facilities
reporting accidents than their white counterparts. A multivariate analysis of the problem reveals that racial sub-populations
are much more likely to be proximate to these accidents even when facility location and urbanization are controlled. We discuss
the implications of our findings and point out that any solutions to the unequal distribution of CEV must lie outside the
traditional criminal justice response.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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