Recently, criminologists have advocated understanding Bcrime as pollution^ to argued for market based crime control policy initiatives that mirror pollution control policy initiatives. That argument assumes that pollution control policies are effective social control mechanisms. This article explores definitional, conceptual, methodolog- ical, theoretical, and policy concerns which arise from the Bcrime as pollution^ concept. While the Bcrime as pollution^ position has sparked interesting policy discussions in criminology, we suggest that viewing crime as pollution is inconsistent with the scientific definitions and measurement of pollution. Moreover, environmental market based social control responses have generated significant environmental justice con- cerns the crime as pollution model overlooks and hence is likely to replicate. Rather