The aim:
1. Course objective is to introduce students to criminological solutions to environmental problems including the nature of environmental offenders and victims, the variety of approaches to achieving environmental justice, criminal justice solutions to specific environmental problems, elements of environmental forensics and fundamentals of green criminology.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Student understands the nature of environmental offenders and victims.
2. Student understands the variety of approaches to achieving environmental justice, and criminal justice solutions to specific environmental problems.

Acquired skills:
1. Student can analyze the nature of environmental crime and justice.
2. Student can identify environmental victims and offenders.
3. Student can describe the differences and similarities between environmental crimes and traditional crimes.
4. Student can name the causes of environmental crimes.
5. Student is able to compare various legal solutions to environmental problems, including the role of civil law, regulatory law, and criminal law and solutions developed in different jurisdictions (comparative legal analysis).
6. Student can critically evaluate the role of the criminal justice system in enforcing, prosecuting, and preventing environmental crimes.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student is able to formulate his own views and assessments in relation to various practical problems related to environmental crime.
2. Student is able to prepare an independent statement on a topic related to environmental crime.
3. Student has the ability to use the acquired knowledge to solve practical problems.
4. Student can interpret and properly apply legal regulations, as well as find and interpret bibliographic sources concerning environmental crime.

Course contents: 
1. History and characteristics of environmental crimes. Concept of Environmental Justice. Civil, Regulatory, and Criminal Law.
2. Green criminology.
3. Transnational environmental crimes. Establishing jurisdiction in environmental criminal matters.
4. Crime scene documentation.
5. Radiological evidence collection.
6. Biological evidence collection.
7. Chemical evidence collection.
8. Hazardous substances abandonment, hazardous evidence packaging and shipping.
9. Environmental Crime Scene Equipment Requirements.
10. Crimes related to animal abuse. Concept of animal rights.
11. Toxic and Hazardous Substances. Crime of pollution.
12. Victims and Offenders.

Recommended reading: 
1. Environmental Crime: Evidence Gathering and Investigative Techniques, Steven C. Drielak, Springfield. Illinois 2019.
2. Crimes Against the Environment, Donald J. Rebovich, George E. Curtis, Routledge. 2020.

Additional reading: 
1. Environmental Crime in Europe, Andrew Farmer; Michael Faure; Grazia Maria Vagliasindi, Series: Modern Studies in European Law. Oxford : Hart Publishing. . 2017.