Exploring Green Criminology Toward a Green Criminological Revolution

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Synopsis

Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology needs to take green harms more seriously and to be revolutionized so that it forms part of the solution to the large environmental problems currently faced across the world. It asks how criminology should be redesigned to consider green/environmental harm as a key area of study in an era where destruction of the earth and the world’s ecosystem is a major concern and examines why this has remained unaccomplished so far. The chapters in this book apply an environmental frame of reference underlying a green approach to issues which can be addressed from within criminology and which can encourage criminologists and environmentalists to respond and react differently to environmental crime.

Book details

Series:
Green Criminology
Author:
Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky
ISBN:
9781317137405
Related ISBNs:
9781315581644, 9781472418067, 9781472418074
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
236
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-05-11
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
Ashgate 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Social Studies