Abstract
This short contribution briefly summarizes the main theories on the systemic causes of environmental crime. It then focuses on the theories that blame the powerful.
It describes its main assumptions and provides possible falsifications. In the last part of the text, the author hypotheses about the potential causes of the stereotypical view of the powerful perpetrator.
She men- tions a possible availability bias, which might influence the point of view from which we study environmental crime. Next, she references some counterexamples where the victim was in fact the more powerful.
In the last part, she comments on a possible logical fallacy stemming from the fact that corporate crime was studied before the environmental crime.