Books in the Green Criminology series

This book uses empirical and theoretical arguments to discuss the multi-dimensional character of eco-global crime. It provides an overview of eco-global crimes and discusses them from a justice perspective.

Taking a broad approach, the book considers the killing and harming of animals in an international context and examines the effectiveness of current legislation, policy and sentencing. Including a section on further reading and useful organizations.

Widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental harm have generally been overlooked by criminologists. This book argues that green harm needs to become a key area of study within the discipline of criminology and considers how the discipline can be redesigned.

This book provides a diverse and provocative array of arguments, critiques and recommendations from leading researchers and scholars in the field of green criminology. The issues addressed are three-fold: the specific characteristics of some of the major types of environmental crime and its perpetrators.

A collection of original essays that explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology. It is essential reading for scholars and academics in criminology, as well as those interested in crime, law and justice.

Over the last 20 years criminologists, working alongside a range of other disciplines from the social and physical sciences, have made great strides in their understanding of how different institutions in society, and criminal justice systems in particular, respond to the harm imposed on ecosystems and their human and non-human components. This pioneering volume, with contributions from leading experts along with younger scholars, represents the state of the art in criminologists' pursuit of understanding in the environmental sphere while at the same time challenging academics, law-makers and policy developers to explore new directions in the study of environmental harm.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. Discussing these topics from the view of green criminology, sociology and governance, this book is suitable for all those concerned about the transnational dimensions of crime and the environment.

This book provides an overview of the developments and problems in the field of transnational environmental crimes and harms, one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The contributors consider a range of issues such as: global issues in green criminology; responses to transnational environmental crimes and harms; alternative methods to combat environmental crime; and specific types of crimes and criminological research. These topics are considered from the perspectives of enforcement, deterrence, compliance and emission trading schemes.

This book brings together different perspectives on the financial aspects of environmental crime and harm from a green criminological viewpoint. It addresses the role of economic systems, the value of environmental performance for corporations, money laundering in the context of environmental crime, financial investigation, and questions of regulation and penalties.

This pioneering volume represents the state of the art in criminologists¿ pursuit of understanding in the environmental sphere while at the same time challenging academics, law-makers and policy developers to explore new directions in the study of environmental harm.

This book brings together different perspectives on the financial aspects of environmental crime and harm from a green criminological viewpoint.

The work features contributions that undertake empirical quantitative studies of green/conservation crime and justice issues by both conservation and green criminologists.