Global Environmental Harm (eBook, ePUB)

Criminological Perspectives
Redaktion: White, Rob

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together original research to explore the importance of eco-global criminology as a dynamic paradigm for theory and action on environmental issues in the 21st century. It serves as an excellent introduction to the topic, providing theoretical, methodological and substantive insights into the nature of global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134030385
• Artikelnr.: 41218460

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPart 1: Global Problems 1. Globalisation and Environmental Harm
2. Equatorial Deforestation as a Harmful Practice and Criminological Issue
3. The Global Transference of Toxic Harms 4. Global Warming, Global Crime:
A Green Criminological PerspectivePart 2: Specific Issues 5. The
Canadian-Alberta Tar Sands: A Case Study of State-corporate Environmental
Crime 6. The Illegal Reptile Trade as a Form of Conservation Crime: A South
African Criminological Introspection 7. The Applicability of Crime
Prevention to Problems of Environmental Harm: A Consideration of Illicit
Trade in Endangered Species 8. The Polluting Behaviour of the Multi
National Corporations in ChinaPart 3: Alternative Visions 9. The
Indiscriminate Criminalisation of Environmentally Beneficial Activities 10.
The Big Grey Elephants in the Backyard of Huelva, Spain 11. Criticality of
Global Environmental Crime, Disparity of Harmful Influence and
Chaos/complexity Green Criminology/justice 12. The Ecocidal Tendencies of
Late Modernity: Transnational Crime, Social Exclusion, Victims and Rights