The U.S. Administrative State and the Protection of Environmental Crime Victims

This accessible book provides the first comprehensive analysis of environmental crime victims within criminal prosecutions in the United States. By combining empirical analysis of criminal investigations undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983-2022 with narrative discussion of numerous related criminal prosecutions, it provides novel insights to help advance a stronger empirical understanding of how the administrative state protects victims of environmental harm, punishes environmental offenders, and aids in furthering the development of an environmental victimology. Joshua Ozymy is Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Social Research and Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he was also Director of the Honors Program and Director of Strategic Initiatives. Melissa Jarrell Ozymy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She was previously Professor and Chair of the Department of Social, Cultural & Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a Professor of Criminal Justice, Dean of University College, and Chair of the Department of Undergraduate Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.