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The Increasing Application of Criminal Law to Disasters and Tragedies.
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- Author(s): Binder, Denis
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Natural Resources & Environment; Winter2016, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p40-43, 4p
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The article focuses on implementation of the U.S. criminal law in tragedies. Topics include description of methyl isocynate leakage case in Bhopal, India of chemical firm Union Carbide in 1984, significance of criminal liability for companies in disasters, observation of increment in cases of oil spills, illustration of structural failures as corporate criminal prosecution, involvement of unsafe mining conditions under criminal prosecution and association of corporate officers with prosecution.
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