Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms Against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals

ISBN-13: 9781843922209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 344 str.

Piers Beirne; Nigel South

Opis

This book provides, if not a manifesto, then at least a significant resource for thinking about green criminology, which is a rapidly developing field. The book is wide-ranging in scope and international in terms of coverage and contributors, providing focused discussions of current and cutting edge issues that will influence the emergence of a coherent perspective on green issues. The contributors are drawn from the leading thinkers in the field. The book explores the myriad ways in which governments, transnational corporations, military apparatuses, and ordinary people going about their everyday lives routinely harm the environment. Its concern is with an ever-expanding agenda the whys, the hows, and the whens of the generation and control of the many aspects of harm to environments, ecological systems, and all species of animals, including humans. These harms include, but are not limited to, exploitation, modes of discrimination and disempowerment, degradation, abuse, exclusion, p

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