Issues in Green Criminology

ISBN-13: 9781843922193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 317 str.

Piers Beirne

Opis

As all societies face up to the need to confront harms against environments, other animals and humanity, criminology will have a major role to play. This book acts as a resource on green criminology, focusing on the whys, the hows and the whens of the generation and control of the many aspects of harm to environments and animals, including humans.

Spis treści

Introduction: Approaching green criminology  Part 1: Introduction to Green Criminology  1. Ecology, community and justice: The meaning of green  2. Green criminology and the pursuit of social and ecological justice  3. Animal rights, animal abuse and green criminology  Part 2: Animal Rights and Animal Abuse  4. Labelling animals. Non-speciesist criminology and techniques to identify other animals  5. Vivisection: The case for abolition  6. Debating 'animal rights' on-line: The movementcountermovement dialectic  Part 3: Ecological Systems and Environmental Harms  7. At risk: Climate change and its bearing on women's vulnerability to male violence  8. Crime, regulation and radioactive waste in the United Kingdom  9. Food crime  10. The 'corporate colonisation of nature': Bio-prospecting, bio-piracy and the development of green criminology  11. Green criminology in the United States  12. Eco-crime and formal and informal law-enforcement in South Africa