The following study explores the geographic distribution of EPA environmental violations across the unincorporated territories within a criminological framework. Using data obtained from the EPA ECHO database, we conduct a geospatial legal analysis to identify island areas bearing a disproportionate number of green criminal activity between 2013 and 2017. Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Mariana Islands, and American Samoa reflect a combination of green criminal patterns tied to tourism, commercial production, militarism, and nuclear testing. These remote and relatively biodiverse isles are consistently found to be bearing the burden of toxic waste which originated on the other side of the sea.

以下研究在犯罪学框架内探讨了 EPA 环境违规行为在非法人领土上的地理分布。使用从 EPA ECHO 数据库获得的数据，我们进行地理空间法律分析，以确定 2013 年至 2017 年期间绿色犯罪活动数量不成比例的岛屿地区。波多黎各、美属维尔京群岛、关岛、马里亚纳群岛和美属萨摩亚反映了与旅游、商业生产、军国主义和核试验相关的绿色犯罪模式的结合。这些偏远且生物多样性相对丰富的岛屿一直被发现承受着来自大海另一侧的有毒废物的负担。