Abstract
In 1998 the journal Theoretical Criminology published an innovative special issue on green criminology, which was compiled by two of the editors of the present collection. The focus of that special issue was a plea for the theoretical development of green criminological approaches to our relationships with ‘nature’, including how we adversely affect the state of the environment and the lives of nonhuman animals (henceforth, ‘animals’). Work in this new field has since continued apace. The study of harms against humanity, the environment and other species – inflicted systematically by powerful profit-seeking entities and on an everyday basis by ordinary people – is increasingly seen as a social concern of extraordinary importance. Green criminology matters! ...
Highlights
Sometimes the harms examined by green criminology are defined as crimes
Sometimes they are quite visible and at still other moments, they are ignored or else their significance is denied. Whatsoever their legal or social status, the expanded notions of harm employed by green criminology need wider dissemination in the academy and in the corridors of power where public policies are forged, enacted and enforced
Some aspects of this process are already underway. This is evident, for example, in the burgeoning research on issues of green criminology presented at scholarly conferences
Summary
Sometimes the harms examined by green criminology are defined as crimes. This is evident, for example, in the burgeoning research on issues of green criminology presented at scholarly conferences. In these seminars an international community of scholars explored questions raised by examination of crimes against the environment and against animals and their available habitat.
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