Environment and enforcement: Regulation and the social definition of pollution

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5329769

Hawkins, K

Hawkins is engaged in ''interpretative sociology'' based on a 30 month field study of enforcement by water pollution control officers in Britain. He isolates two polar styles, a ''compliance strategy'' which is ''conciliatory and relies upon bargaining'' with polluters to achieve compliance with standards, and a ''sanctioning strategy'' which is ''accusatory and adversarial'' and focuses primarily on ''whether a law has been broken and whether an offender can be detected.'' Although the formal law calls for strict liability and criminal penalties for violations, in fact prosecutions are a ''last resort'' and brought only when a polluter's actions are judged ''normally deviant.''

• OSTI ID: 5329769
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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