Green Criminology
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2018) | Viewed by 40308
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cultural criminology; cultural ecocriticism; cultural geography; ecotheory; green criminology; visual criminology; visual theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past three decades, a stream of criminological inquiry has emerged which explores, measures and theorizes crimes and harms to the environment at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels. This “green criminology,” as it has come to be known, has widened the criminological gaze to consider crimes and harms committed against nonhuman animals, air, land (from forests to wetlands), and water in local, regional, national and international areas or arenas. Accordingly, green criminology has endeavoured to understand the causes, consequences and potential responses to air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, corporate environmental crime (e.g., illegal waste disposal), food production and distribution, resource extraction and exploitation, and wildlife trade and trafficking.
The proposed Special Issue aims to introduce the green criminological perspective to a broader social science audience. Recognizing that green criminology is not the first social science to explore the phenomena and harms at the intersections of humanity and ecology, the proposed special issue seeks to offer the unique insights developed over nearly 30 years of green criminological thought and scholarship to students, professors, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of anthropology, economics, environmental humanities, environmental sociology, geography, history and political ecology. Noting that Social Sciences has previously published articles and issues that have made a significant impact in a diverse array of fields and disciplines across the spectrum of social science, we feel that the proposed special issue offers a mutually beneficial opportunity to bring together green criminologists and other social scientists working on issues of environmental degradation and despoilation.
For the proposed Special Issue, we intend to include contributions from researchers in green criminology from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Latin America, including early- and mid-career scholars, as well as more established voices in the field. We anticipate a collection of 7–10 substantive and original articles.
Prof. Bill McClanahanProf. Avi Brisman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Green criminology
- Environmental harm
- Eco-global criminology
- Environment
- Ecology
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