Crimes Against the Environment (PDF)

Donald J. Rebovich, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Utica College, Utica, N.Y., is the Director of Financial Crime Programs at the College. Dr. Rebovich is also the Executive Director of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) of Utica College. Prior to Utica College, Dr. Rebovich served as the Research Director for the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA). At NW3C he was responsible for directing the national analysis of Internet crime report data generated by the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center, and directing the National Public Survey on White Collar Crime program. He is co-author of "Identity Fraud Trends and Patterns: Building a Data-Based Foundation for Proactive Enforcement," a national study of U.S. Secret Service identity theft cases covering a six-year period. He is also the author of Dangerous Ground: The World of Hazardous Waste Crime, which presented the results of the first empirical study of environmental crime and its control in the United States. Most recently, he co-edited a text entitled The New Technology of Crime, Law and Social Control. His background includes research in identity crime characteristics, economic crime victimization, white collar crime prosecution, protected health information, human trafficking, and multijurisdictional task force development.