Legal and educational measures to reduce environmental crimes in Algeria

Abstract EN

Environmental crimes are considered to be one of the most important newly emerged crimes, which have developed due to their rapid spread and their negative effects on the environment and human life.

Algeria, like other countries, has put in place a set of sanctions in the event that this type of crime is committed against the environment were causing damage, and even helping to do so, in accordance with the developments and foreign legislation which has made crimes against environment an important, and common subject for the entire international community.

Scientific research has contributed to the development of this kind of emerging crime, due to the destructive acts that had to accompany the emergence of the industrial revolution, which has a negative impact on an individual's life and the whole society.

Therefore, the present research paper aims to shed light on this type of crime by highlighting the occurring areas, and its impact on people's health, and the environment, with reference to some mechanisms to deal with it in Algeria.