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An introduction to green criminology & environmental justice / Angus Nurse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nurse, Angus, author.
- Series:
- Sage knowledge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Offenses against the environment.
- Environmental justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- An introduction to green criminology and environmental justice
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sage, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A comprehensive introduction to green criminology, this book is a discussion of the relationship between mainstream criminal justice and green crimes. Focused on environmental harm within the context of criminal justice this book takes a global perspective and *Introduces students to different theoretical perspectives in green criminology *Looks at the victims of environmental crime throughout *Covers topics such as; wildlife crimes, animal abuse, the causes of environmental crime, regulation, exploitation, environmental activism, policing, prosecution and monitoring. Designed to help readers develop a thorough understanding of the principles of environmental justice and green criminology, as well as contemporary developments, this book will be excellent support to student of green criminology and environmental crime.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: part I Introduction and Theory
- 1.An Introduction to Green Criminological Theories
- Introduction
- Contextualizing Green Criminology
- What is Green Criminology?
- Environmental Criminology
- Environmental Justice
- Ecological Justice
- The Purpose of Green Criminology: The Green and the Mainstream
- Summary
- Self-study Questions
- 2.Species Justice: Animal Rights, Animal Abuse and Violence Towards Humans
- The Case for Animal Rights
- Legal Rights, Legal Personhood and Animal Welfare Protections
- Contemporary Animal Protection Law
- The Link between Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
- The Progression Thesis and Domestic Violence
- 3.The Causes of Environmental Crime and Criminality
- Protecting the Environment
- Pollution and Waste Offences
- Corporate Environmental Crime and the Criminal Entrepreneur
- Note continued: Masculinities as a Cause of Environmental Crime
- part II Environmental Crime as Global Crime
- 4.The Future Protection of Wildlife: Resolving Wildlife Crime and Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
- Defining Wildlife Crime
- The Politicization of Wildlife Laws
- Problems of Wildlife Law Enforcement
- Enforcement Options and Regulatory Approach
- The Future Protection of Wildlife
- 5.Regulating Environmental Harm: Environmental Crime and Governance
- Key Aspects of Environmental Law
- Governance and Regulatory Compliance
- Enforcing CER and Ethical Governance
- Environmental Offences and Human Rights
- 6.The Criminal Exploitation of Natural Resources
- The Oil and Gas Extraction Industries
- The Illegal Timber Trade
- Biopiracy: Contemporary Exploitation of Natural Resources
- Note continued: Self-study Questions
- 7.Climate Change and Environmental Damage
- Climate Change as a Cause of Crime
- Sociocultural Perspectives and Climate Change Denial
- Global Warming as Crime
- Climate Change and the Courts
- part III Policing, Prosecuting and Monitoring Environmental Crime
- 8.The Green Movement: NGOs and Environmental Justice
- Environmental Citizenship
- NGOs and Ideology
- The Nature of Activism: NGOs as Agents of Social Change
- Extreme Activism and the Criminalization of NGOs and Environmental Activists
- 9.Investigating Environmental Crime
- Practical Green Policing
- The Role of NGOs
- The Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS)
- The Basel Convention and the Basel Network
- The Quality of Justice
- Note continued: 10.Repairing the Harm: Restorative Justice and Environmental Courts
- Understanding Restorative Justice
- Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice
- Applying Restorative Justice to Environmental Harm
- Environmental Courts
- Environmental Ombudsmen
- Self-study Questions.
- Notes:
- Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on MARC record for print version.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781473971899
- OCLC:
- 1013739991
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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