The Emergence and Futures of Green Criminology
This article provides a broad introduction to green criminology and the study of environmental crime. It discusses the emergence of this approach, its key concepts and empirical concerns, and the issues likely to feature in future work in this area. Among the topics discussed are eco-justice (related to specific types of environmental victimization) and ecocide (pertaining to the criminalization of environmental harm). Transgressions against humans, eco-systems, and nonhuman animals provide an overarching framework within which to discuss specific types of crimes and harms, from illegal fishing to pollution that contributes to global warming. Retrospective analysis and environmental horizon scanning are used to describe the broad conceptual contours of green criminology, past and present.