Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food

ISBN-13: 9780415521130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Reece Walters

Opis

This book aims to bring the debates about GM food into the social and criminological arena. It highlights the criminal actions of state and corporate officials including the illegal production and sale of GM products, biopiracy and the manipulatio

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Planting the Seed  2. The Politicisation of GM: Terrain, Terms and Concepts  3. The Perils, Prospects and Controversies of GM Food  4. Risk, Public Opinion and Consumer Resistance  5. Biotech, Papal and Trade ‘Wars’: Third World Hunger, Exploitation and the Politics of GM Food  6. Regulatory Regimes: Ensuring Safety or Enhancing Profits?  7. Green Criminology: Power, Harm and (In) Justice  8. Reflections and Conclusions

O autorze

Reece Walters is Professor in Criminology, and Head of the Social Policy and Criminology Department at The Open University. He has published widely on the politics and governance of criminological knowledge, including Deviant Knowledge - Criminology, Politics and Policy and Critical Thinking about the Uses of Research (with Tim Hope).