Mark Wright is Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Before then he worked on regulatory prosecutions, in particular prosecutions under New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991.

• 1. Introduction: Are the Offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA)Working?.- 2. The Context for the Enquiry: Regulation and the RMA.- 3. Theoretical Framework: Compliance, Enforcement, Sanctions and the Criminal Law.- 4. Failing the First Test: The Offences are not Effective.- 5. Explaining the Lack of Effectiveness: Constraints and Choices.- 6. Failing the Second Test: The Offences are being used Inappropriately.- 7. Explaining the Inappropriate Use: Form versus Substance.- 8. The Offences are not Working: Implications for Green Criminology.

Mark Wright is Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Before then he worked on regulatory prosecutions, in particular prosecutions under New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991.

• 1. Introduction: Are the Offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA)Working?.- 2. The Context for the Enquiry: Regulation and the RMA.- 3. Theoretical Framework: Compliance, Enforcement, Sanctions and the Criminal Law.- 4. Failing the First Test: The Offences are not Effective.- 5. Explaining the Lack of Effectiveness: Constraints and Choices.- 6. Failing the Second Test: The Offences are being used Inappropriately.- 7. Explaining the Inappropriate Use: Form versus Substance.- 8. The Offences are not Working: Implications for Green Criminology.

Mark Wright is Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Before then he worked on regulatory prosecutions, in particular prosecutions under New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991.

• 1. Introduction: Are the Offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA)Working?.- 2. The Context for the Enquiry: Regulation and the RMA.- 3. Theoretical Framework: Compliance, Enforcement, Sanctions and the Criminal Law.- 4. Failing the First Test: The Offences are not Effective.- 5. Explaining the Lack of Effectiveness: Constraints and Choices.- 6. Failing the Second Test: The Offences are being used Inappropriately.- 7. Explaining the Inappropriate Use: Form versus Substance.- 8. The Offences are not Working: Implications for Green Criminology.