Environmental Safety — Selected Instruments of Legal Protection
Environmental Safety — Selected Instruments of Legal Protection

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews new research directions in criminology and makes an attempt to place the problem of bird protection in the urban environment against the background of these theories. The author presents the issue of the legal protection of endangered bird species in the context of human activity, at the same time emphasising that extinction threats will not always have a criminal nature. The article points out that virtually all the authors dealing with green criminology highlight the importance of criminological research on the advanced forms of crime (such as organised crime and white collar crime) for the natural environment areas. Currently, criminological sciences have begun to extend their interest to broadly understood environmental threats. The author stresses that ecological issues have been recognised as an important research field of contemporary criminological sciences and that new concepts and a new conceptual framework for describing the interdependence of crime and other pathological phenomena, including the destruction of the natural environment, have appeared in criminology worldwide. The second part of the article/paper refers to the application of Article 181 of the Criminal Code in relation to perpetrators destroying habitats of endangered bird species.

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