Environmental Crime

by Rob White (Editor)

Environmental crime is a topic of growing international importance. This book provides a general introduction and overview of this issue by presenting key articles and source material in the emerging area of green or environmental criminology. The focus for the collection is environmental crime, itself an ambiguous concept, and one that has been defined in the broadest terms to include environmental harms of many different kinds. The articles and extracts reprinted in this Reader span a wide range of concerns – from issues of pollution, illegal disposal of waste and logging, through to prosecution of specific environmental offences and crime prevention as this pertains to trade in endangered species. The book includes articles and extracts that challenge existing conceptualisations of environmental crime and human rights, as well as those that provide insight into what the 'greening' of research and scholarship means for criminology as a field. The Reader draws upon work from many different sources, and from many different disciplines and perspectives. The Reader is divided into three main conceptualising environmental crime; dynamics of environmental crime and environmental law enforcement. It is the most inclusive and up-to-date collection of its kind and will be an essential resource for students, academics, policy-makers, environmental managers, police, magistrates and others with a general interest in environmental issues.

760 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2009

Reviews

[Diane Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Borrowed this from my local Enfield Library (UK), and so far it looks very good. It is more a collection of papers on various topics, hence "reader" for academic study:

Part 1 conceptualizing environmental crime
Part 2 dynamics of environmental crime
Part 3 environmental law enforcement

each section has about 10-12 writings by different authors/specialists in the field. I particularly liked the one by Daniel Brook titled Environmental genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste.

This book is in the field of Green Criminology: "key issue is weighing of different kinds of harm and violation of rights within the context of an eco-justice framework"
"Environment rights AND environmental justice in which environmental rights are seen as an extension of human or social rights so as to enhance the quality of human life, now, AND, in the future" (emphasis is mine-important bc in the age of OR, we need to realize AND)