1st Edition
Global Environmental Harm Criminological Perspectives
Edited By Rob White
Copyright 2010
278 Pages
by
Willan
278 Pages
by
Willan
256 Pages
by
Willan
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This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives. The topics covered in the book are global, regional and local in nature, although in each case there are clear transnational or global dimensions.
The book explores topics that provide theoretical, methodological and substantive insights... Read more
Introduction, Rob White Part I: Global Problems 1. Globalisation and environmental harm, Rob White 2. Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and criminological issue, Tim Boekhout van Solinge 3. The global transference of toxic harms, Diane Heckenberg 4. Global warming, global crime: a green criminological perspective, Michael Lynch and Paul Stretesky Part II: Specific Issues 5. The Canadian-Alberta Tar Sands: a case study of state-corporate environmental crime, Russell Smandych and Rodney Kueneman 6. The illegal reptile trade as a form of conservation crime: a South African criminological introspection, Joe Herbig 7. The applicability of crime prevention to problems of environmental harm: a consideration of illicit trade in endangered species, Melanie Wellsmith 8. The polluting behaviour of the multi national corporations in China, Yang Shuqin Part III: Alternative Visions 9. The indiscriminate criminalisation of environmentally beneficial activities, Avi Brisman 10. The big grey elephants in the backyard of Huelva, Spain, Lorenzo Natali 11. Criticality of global environmental crime, disparity of harmful influence and chaos/complexity green criminology/justice, Noriyoshi Takemura 12. The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity: transnational crime, social exclusion, victims and rights, Nigel South
Biography
Rob White is Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia. In addition to this he is the Director of both the Criminology Research Unit and the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.
