green crime

• who invented green criminology ?

  M J Lynch (1990)
• green criminology

  refers to crimes committed against the environment
• green criminologists are transgressive criminologists

  not all the activities they are interested in would be in the interest of traditional criminology
• Beck - global risk society

  he points out issues like global warming and how they pose a risk to the whole world

  he argues that many of these risks are manufactured risks that have been created by the way we organise contemporary society
• anthropocentric

  considers harm to the environment from the perspective of humanity

  pollution is a problem because it damages human water supply and causes disease
• Ecocentric

  doesn't distinguish between humans and the rest of the ecosystem ; sees harm to any aspect of the environment as harm to all of it
• who spoke about primary and secondary green crime?

  South (2008)
• primary green crime

  crimes that are committed directly against the environment or acts that cause harm to the environment

  eg. pollution or deforestation
• secondary green crime

  further crime that grows out of rules relating to the environment

  eg. violence against environmental groups
• evaluation of green crime

  the concept of secondary green crime is arguably not that useful ; what is being described is simply crime, the links to environmental issues are incidental