Climate Change Criminology
Rob White
Abstract
This book 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 incl ... More
Keywords: crime prevention, climate change, global capitalism, global warming, Paris Climate agreement
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781529203950 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529203950.001.0001 |
