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  • A green criminology is required to consider environmental threats and wider harms that might not fall within strict socio-legal definitions of crime, and that are marginalized within criminal justice responses and scholarship

  • Avi Brisman and Nigel South draw on Stanley Cohen’s pioneering work in chapter 2, applying a green perspective to argue that criminology requires greater sensitivity to a range of environmental harms; from pollution and its regulation through to species extinction and climate change

  • In “Anthropogenic Development Drives Species to Be Endangered”, Lynch and Stretesky contend that green criminology argues for “rejecting the state definition of crime as the only valid method for examining crime”

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R. Sollund (ed.) Green Harms and Crimes: Critical Criminology in a Changing World (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 286pp, £65.00 (hbk) The collection covers a range of topics – state–corporate environmental harms; the economy of waste; agribusiness, governments and food crime; and the illegal trade in wildlife – all seen through a green criminological lens.

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