A major challenge in conducting quantitative analyses in the field of corporate environmental crime is the lack of a readily accessible data set. At least in the United States, currently the best available datasets regarding environmental crime generally are produced and disseminated by government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). However, these datasets have multiple limitations that force researchers to “scour” through the informational landscape for other primary and secondary sources to conduct more robust quantitative analyses. In this article, we document the attempts researchers have made to create broader datasets for corporate environmental crime analysis, with the hope that it will assist researchers working to create useful bodies of data for analysis.

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像艺术家一样偷窃：利用法庭记录对企业环境犯罪进行定量研究

在企业环境犯罪领域进行定量分析的一个主要挑战是缺乏易于获取的数据集。至少在美国，目前关于环境犯罪的最佳可用数据集通常由环境保护署（“EPA”）等政府机构制作和传播。然而，这些数据集有多重限制，迫使研究人员在信息环境中“搜寻”其他主要和次要来源，以进行更可靠的定量分析。在本文中，我们记录了研究人员为创建更广泛的企业环境犯罪分析数据集所做的尝试，希望它能帮助研究人员创建有用的数据体进行分析。