Climate change criminology

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0395-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Leading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists.

Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinized for their contribution to global warming. Ideas of ‘state-corporate crime’ and 'ecocide’ are introduced and explored in this concise overview of criminological writings on climate change. This sound and robust application of theoretical concepts to this ‘new’ area also includes commentary on topical issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement.

Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, which draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Climate change and criminology

Global warming as ecocide

In the heat of the moment

Climate change catastrophes and social intersections

Climate change victims

Carbon criminals

Criminal justice responses to climate change

Criminological responses to climate change

Über Autor(innen)

White, Rob
Rob White, Professor of Criminology at University of Tasmania, Australia, is pioneering the field of green criminology internationally, having published a number of books on the topic. His research examines three interconnected justice-related approaches to environmental harm: Environmental justice, Ecological justice, and Species justice.

Rob White, Professor of Criminology at the University of Tasmania, Australia, is pioneering the field of green criminology internationally, having published a number of books in this area. His work explores issues of eco-justice and environmental harm through consideration of environmental justice, ecological justice, and species justice.