1st Edition

Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food

By Reece Walters Copyright 2011
174 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

176 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

176 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms. Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM food into the social and criminological arena. This book highlights the criminal and harmful actions of state and corporate officials. It concludes that corporate and political corruption,... Read more

1. Introduction: Planting the Seed  2. The Politicisation of GM: Terrain, Terms and Concepts  3. The Perils, Prospects and Controversies of GM Food  4. Risk, Public Opinion and Consumer Resistance  5. Biotech, Papal and Trade ‘Wars’: Third World Hunger, Exploitation and the Politics of GM Food  6. Regulatory Regimes: Ensuring Safety or Enhancing Profits?  7. Green Criminology: Power, Harm and (In) Justice  8. Reflections and Conclusions

Biography

Reece Walters is Professor in Criminology, and Head of the Social Policy and Criminology Department at The Open University. He has published widely on the politics and governance of criminological knowledge, including Deviant Knowledge - Criminology, Politics and Policy and Critical Thinking about the Uses of Research (with Tim Hope).