Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date. With contributions from leading international green criminologists and scholars in related fields, the Handbook examines a wide range of substantive issues, including: climate change corporate criminality and impacts on the environment environmental justice media representations pollution (e.g. air, water) questions of responsibility and risk wildlife trafficking
The chapters in The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology explore green criminology in depth, its theory, history and development, as well as methodological concerns for this area of academic interest. With examples of environmental crimes, harms, and threats from Africa, Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe, South America, the United Kingdom, and the United States, The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology will serve as a vital resource for international scholars and students in criminology, sociology, law and socio-legal studies, as well as environmental science, environmental studies, politics and international relations.
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List of Contributors
Preface to the Second Edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New horizons, ongoing and emerging issues, and relationships in green criminology Avi Brisman and Nigel South
I. History, theory and methods
1. The growth of a field: A short history of a ‘green’ criminology Avi Brisman and Nigel South
2. The ordinary acts that contribute to ecocide: A criminological analysis Robert Agnew
3. Wildlife crime: A situational crime prevention perspective Christina Burton, Devin Cowan, and William Moreto
4. Expanding treadmill of production analysis within green criminology by integrating metabolic rift and ecological unequal exchange theories Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael A. Long and Kimberly L. Barrett
5. The visual dimension of green criminology Lorenzo Natali and Bill McClanahan
6. Innovative approaches to researching environmental crime Diane Heckenberg and Rob White
7. Environmental refugees as environmental victims Matthew Hall
8. How criminologists can help victims of green crimes through scholarship and activism Joshua Ozymy, Melissa L. Jarrell and Elizabeth A. Bradshaw
II. International and transnational issues for a green criminology
9. Climate crimes: The case of Exxon Ronald C. Kramer and Elizabeth A. Bradshaw
10. Global environmental divides and dislocations: Climate apartheid, atmospheric injustice, and the blighting of the planet Avi Brisman, Nigel South and Reece Walters
11. Food crime and green criminology Wesley Tourangeau and Amy Fitzgerald
12. Monopolising seeds, monopolising society: A Guide to contemporary criminological research on biopiracy David Rodríguez Goyes
13. The war on drugs and its invisible collateral damage: Environmental harm and climate change Tammy Ayers
14. “Greening” injustice: Penal reform, carceral expansion and greenwashing Jordan E. Mazurek, Justin Piché and Judah Schept
III. Region-specific problems: Some case studies
15. The Amazon Rainforest: A green criminological perspective Tim Boekhout van Solinge
16. Green issues in South-Eastern Europe Katja Eman and Gorazd Meško
17. The Flint water crisis: A case study of state-sponsored environmental (in)justice Jacquelynn Doyon-Martin
18. Indigenous environmental victimisation in the Canadian oil sands James Heydon
19. Fracking the Rockies: The production of harm Kellie Alexander, Tara O’Connor Shelley and Tara Opsal
20. Corporate capitalism, environmental damage, and the rule of law: The Magurchara gas explosion in Bangladesh Nikhilendu Deb
21. Authoritarian environmentalism and environmental regulation enforcement: A case study of medical waste crime in Northwestern China KuoRay Mao, Yiliang Zhu, Zhong Zhao, and Yan Shan
IV. Relationships in green criminology: Environment and economy
22. E-waste in the twilight zone between crime and survival Wim van Herk and Lieselot Bisschop
23. The environment and the crimes of the economy Vincenzo Ruggiero
24. Green criminology and the working class: Political ecology and the expanded implications of political economic analysis in green criminology Michael J. Lynch
25. Insurance and climate change Liam Phelan, Cameron Holley, Clifford Shearing and Louise du Toit
26. Energy harms: ‘Extreme energy’, fracking and water Damien Short
27. Green criminology and fracking in the UK Jack Lampkin
V. Relationships in green criminology: Humans and non-human species
28. A violent interspecies relationship: The case of animal sexual assault Jennifer Maher and Harriet Pierpoint
29. The victimization of women, children and non-human species through trafficking and trade: Crimes understood through an ecofeminist perspective Ragnhild Sollund
30. Wildlife trafficking and criminogenic asymmetries in a globalized world Daan van Uhm
31. Myths of causality, control and coherence in the ‘war on wildlife crime’ Siv Runhovde
32. Environmental justice, animal rights, and total liberation: From conflict and distance to points of common focus David N. Pellow
VI. Relationships in green criminology: Environment and culture
33. Environmental justice and the rights of Indigenous peoples Angus Nurse
34. Green crime on the reservation: A spatio-temporal analysis of U.S. Native American reservations 2011-2015 Tameka Samuels-Jones, Ryan Thomson, Johanna Espin
35. Getting into Deep Water: A Case Study of the Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana Lieselot Bisschop, Staci Strobl and Julie Viollaz
36. Toward a green cultural criminology of the south Avi Brisman and Nigel South
37. Consumed by the crisis: Green criminology and cultural criminology Jeff Ferrell
38. Littering in the Northeast of England: a sign of social disorganisation? Kelly Johnson, Tanya Wyatt, Sarah Coulthard and Cassandra O’Neill
39. A Short Conclusion Concerning a Questionable Future Avi Brisman and Nigel South
Index
Avi Brisman is an assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY (USA). His writing has appeared in such journals as Crime, Law and Social Change, Crime Media Culture, Critical Criminology, and Western Criminology Review, among others.
Nigel South is Professor of Sociology, a member of the Human Rights Centre and Centre for Criminology, and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex, England. He has served on various editorial boards and governing bodies and has published over twenty books and journal special issues including several contributing to the development of green criminology.
"Diverse criminologists critically update readers on "glocal" green harms including climate change, crimes against animals and e-waste. In analyzing new(er) green problems such as medical waste, fracking and food crime, the authors demonstrate how rapidly green criminological boundaries are advancing to attend to the intricate and dynamic complexities of human-environment relationships."
– Meredith Gore, Michigan State University, USA
"This is an excellent follow-up to the first edition of the handbook and one again brings together leading scholars in the field of green criminology. This expanded second edition of the handbook illustrates the rapid growth and importance of the subdiscipline. It provides a broad tour de horizon that does justice to the richness of green criminological thinking and research. The book will help to inspire students and scholars around the world to delve deeper into specific subjects and thereby contribute to understanding and reducing the problems of environmental crimes and harm."
– Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, Netherlands
"This book provides valuable insights and theoretical discussions into the world of environmental crime. Recommended for scholars, students, researchers and anyone interested in understanding crimes against nature and wildlife, this handbook will certainly inspire future work in green criminology."
– Rebecca Wong, City University of Hong Kong