Greening Criminology in the 21st Century ― Contemporary Debates and Future Directions in the Study of Environmental Harm

In the 21st century, environmental harm is an ever-present reality of our globalised world. 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 - or fail to respond - to the harm imposed on ecosystems and their human and non-human components. Such research has crystallised into the rapidly evolving field of green criminology. This pioneering volume, with contributions from the leading experts along with younger scholars, represents the state of the art in criminologistsa€? pursuit of understanding in the environmental sphere whilst at the same time challenging academics, law-makers and policy developers to explore new directions in the study of environmental harm.

Matthew Hall is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of Research at the University of Lincoln School of Law. His expertise is in the area of Victimology and he has acted in an advisory role to the European Commission, and the South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. More recently he has pioneered research on environmental victimisation and the application of environmental justice principles in the criminal justice system at the national and international levels. Dr Tanya Wyatt is a Principal Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University. She has previously worked as a law enforcement officer in the US. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Universitya€?s Transnational Environmental Crime Project in 2013. Her research focuses on Green Criminology, particularly the illegal wildlife trade. Nigel South is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the Centre for Criminology, the Human Rights Centre and Essex Sustainability Institute at the University of Essex, England. He is a visiting Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London and in 2013 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology. He has published widely on green criminology; drug use, health and crime; inequalities and citizenship; and theoretical and comparative criminology, and currently serves as the European Editor for Critical Criminology and on the Editorial Boards of Deviant Behavior and the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. With Avi Brisman, he is co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology (2013) and co-author of Green Cultural Criminology: constructions of environmental harm, consumerism and resistance to ecocide (2014). Angus Nurse is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Middlesex Universitya€?s School of Law where he teaches and researches criminology and law with research specialisms in: environmental crime; animal law and its enforcement; alternative dispute resolution (particularly Ombudsmana€?s schemes); and human rights and access to justice. Gary Potter is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University where he established the longest-running undergraduate course in Green Criminology in England. As well as researching and publishing in Green Criminology, he writes about drug markets and cannabis cultivation. Jennifer Maher is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Criminology at the University of South Wales. She is currently involved in a FP7 (European Commission) project which is focused on the impact of environmental crime in Europe, in particular she is looking at the illegal trade in Wildlife. Jennifer has previously undertaken funded projects which have looked at animal abuse and status dogs. She has published internationally in peer reviewed journals and has co-edited a special journal issue on animal abuse in Crime, Law and social change.