Climate Change Criminology

✍ Scribed by Rob White

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinized for their contribution to global warming. Ideas of ‘state-corporate crime’ and 'ecocide’ are introduced and explored in this concise overview of criminological writings on climate change. This sound and robust application of theoretical concepts to this ‘new’ area also includes commentary on topical issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, which draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.

✦ Table of Contents

CLIMATE CHANGE CRIMINOLOGY
Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Climate change and criminology
Introduction
Climate change, the Anthropocene and criminology
Key themes of climate change criminology
Conclusion
2. Global warming as ecocide
Introduction
Ecocide as a crime
Business as usual and state–corporate crime
Contrarianism and techniques of neutralisation
Conclusion
3. In the heat of the moment
Introduction
Heat matters
Climate change and crime typologies
Climate change and violent crime
Climate change and carbon emissions crime
Conclusion
4. Climate change catastrophes and social intersections
Introduction
Disasters and criminality
Climate change and conflict over resources
Securitisation of resources
Conclusion
5. Climate change victims
Introduction
Human and non-human environmental victims
Climate change and the world of the young
Indigenous people and climate injustice
Conclusion
6. Carbon criminals
Introduction
Capitalism and the growth imperative
Commodification
Capitalist responses to climate change
Climate vandals engaging in ecocide
7. Criminal justice responses to climate change
Introduction
Litigation in support of climate justice
Greening justice initiatives
Holding to account those responsible
Intervention and social action
Conclusion
8. Criminological responses to climate change
Introduction
Constructing the issues
Key aspects of climate change criminology
Contesting the future
Conclusion
References
Index