Full Description
Rob White's pioneering work in the establishment and growth of green criminology has been part of a paradigm shift for the field of criminology as it has moved to include crimes committed against the environment. For the first time, this book brings together a selection of White's essays that explore the theories, research approaches and concepts that have been instrumental to our understanding of environmental harm and eco-justice.
The book provides an additional foundation for scholarship that goes beyond expression of opinion or immediate empirical finding; the emphasis is on systematic analysis and theoretically informed consideration of complex realities. It serves as a platform for further debate and discussion of green criminology's theories, perspectives, approaches and concepts and their application to specific sub-areas such as environmental law enforcement, wildlife trafficking, pollution and climate change. Its aim is not to provide answers, but to stimulate further dedicated theoretical contemplation of environmental harms, threats to biodiversity and extinction of species.
This is essential reading for all those engaged with green criminology, as well as criminological theory, eco-justice and environment and sustainability studies.
Contents
1.Theory, Research and Practice in Green Criminology Part 1: Theory and Concepts 2.The Conceptual Contours of Green Criminology 3.Critical Green Criminology 4.Ecocentrism and Criminal Justice 5.Ecocide and the Carbon Crimes of the Powerful 6.Climate Change and Paradoxical Harm Part 2: Knowing and Valuing 7.Green Criminology and the Non-Human Victim 8.Indigenous Communities, Environmental Protection and Restorative Justice 9.The Four Ways of Eco-Global Criminology 10.Researching Transnational Environmental Harm: Toward an Eco-Global Criminology 11.Depleted Uranium, State Crime and the Politics of Knowing Part 3: Responding and Acting 12.Reparative Justice, Environmental Crime and Penalties for the Powerful 13.NGO Engagement in Environmental Law Enforcement: Critical Reflections 14.Environmental Harm, Ecological Citizenship and Transnational Environmental Activism 15.Environmental Insecurity and Fortress Mentality 16.Eco-Justice and the Moral Fissures of Green Criminology
