Dr Lieselot Bisschop, assistant professor in the Criminology section and the Erasmus Initiative on Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity, and co-authors Dr Staci Strobl and Dr Julie Viollaz receive the 'Outstanding Article Award' from 'The American Society of Criminology - Division of Corporate and White-Collar Crime'. Together they wrote about the responsibility of companies and states for the coastal land loss in the Louisiana Bayou.
At the end of 2017, the British Journal of Criminology published the article by Dr Bisschop, Dr Strobl (University of Wisconsin-Platteville) and Dr Viollaz (UNODC) titled "Getting into deep water: coastal land loss and state-corporate crime in the Louisiana Bayou". This article examines the disappearance of Isle de Jean Charles and Dr Lieselot Bisschop takes a critical look at causes of "coastal land loss". She does so from various points of view, which analyses state, corporate and green-cultural crime elements. The unique way in which Dr Bisschop and her co-authors Staci Strobl and Julie Viollaz illuminate the aspects surrounding this case of coastal land loss did not go unnoticed by the "American Society of Criminology" (ASC). On 14 November, they were awarded the "Outstanding Article Award" by the ASC Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. The jury praised the nuances ways in which the authors broke down the different perspectives on the causes of land loss and the responsibilities of government actors and companies describing a state-corporate environmental crime spanning decades.
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About the American Society of Criminology
The American Society of Criminology is a leading international association in the field of criminology and the division that awarded the prize, the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, focuses primarily on promoting theory, knowledge and practice in all facets of white-collar and corporate crime.About Dr Lieselot Bisschop
Dr Bisschop is affiliated with Erasmus School of Law and the Erasmus Initiative on Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity and specializes in environmental harm and corporate crime. She mainly investigates the balance between, among other things, economic and ecological considerations on a national scale and at the level of companies.The article can be read here.
The article was also discussed in a blog post on CrimEUR.