Survey data for: Environmental Crimes and Illegal Waste Trade.

The dataset includes the survey questions and answer for the primary sources of the Master Thesis in International Environmental Studies, entitled "Environmental Crimes and Illegal Waste Trade. A Study of the Perception of Seriousness of Environmental Crimes related to Slow Violence and Ecomafie in the Province of Brescia, Italy". Environmental crimes of the illegal waste trade committed by mafia-type organisations have been expanding in different areas of Italy, especially in the North of the country. The master thesis aims to understand the characteristic of the illegal waste trade whenever "ecomafie" are involved. The project aims to read these illegal activities through the lens of the slow violence theory, by addressing the perceptions of the inhabitants of the area regarding the seriousness of environmental crimes. The qualitative research is based on data collected by an on-line survey, included in this dataset. The survey was carried out in Italian and later translated and analysed in English. The data were collected using a snowball method.