Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds): Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Second Edition
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Avi Brisman and Nigel South (eds): Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Second Edition Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, and New York, 2020, 726 pp, ISBN: 978-1-138-63380-3 (HB), ISBN: 978-1-315-20709-4 (eBook) Ekaterina Gladkova1
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The First Edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology, published in 2013, delivered a prescient argument for continued criminological attention to environmental problems. Today, as scholars consider human–environment relationships to explain global and regional environmental decline, the publication of the Second Edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology (the “Handbook”) reflects the dynamic history of the green criminological field, while also introducing emerging areas of study, new methodological orientations and new locations of research. The editors, Avi Brisman and Nigel South, divide 40 contributions to the Handbook into six parts. Part I discusses how environmental problems and solutions have been theorized and researched in green criminology. In Chapter 1, Brisman and South present a short history of the field, discussing typologies of environmental crime and theoretical positions in green criminological research, as well as charting directions for future research. Following that, Robert Agnew considers the place of green criminology within the broader criminological discipline by discussing “ordinary acts that contribute to ecocide” (p. 52) (such as living in large homes, driving to work, and consuming meat on a regular basis) and explaining their root causes through strain, social control, self-control, social learning/rational choice, biosocial, and opportunity theories. Chapter 3, by Christina Burton, Devin Cowan and William Moreto, explores how situational crime prevention (SCP) measures can provide an alternative to the legalistic approach to fight wildlife crime, while also fostering collaborative links between green criminology and SCP. In Chapter 4, Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael A. Long and Kimberly L. Barrett innovate the “treadmill of production” theoretical framework by complementing it with “metabolic rift theory” and “ecological unequal exchange theory” in order “to make the linkage between capitalism and ecological destruction more visible” (p. 90). The next two chapters—by Lorenzo Natali and Bill McClanahan, and Diane Heckenberg and Rob White, respectively—consider methodological innovations in researching environmental crime. Natali and McClanahan highlight the “salience of the visual dimensions of crime” (p. 105), while Heckenberg and White stress the importance of capturing the voices of criminologists from different parts of the world. * Ekaterina Gladkova [email protected] 1
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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