Up until Recently I had never even heard of Environmental Criminology? As a matter of fact I first heard the term on an article on Livescience titled: "Wildlife Bandits: How Criminology Can Fight Poaching" by Douglas Main (I'll attach the article for those not familiar with the topic) . AS a matter of fact I wondered if anyone has actually used any of the criminological theories or made new ones regarding what makes man commit crimes against Nature and/or wildlife? We shun acts of violence against one another; but not crimes against our environment. In fact I hipothesise that most people on their day to day lives actually commit enviromental crimes, yet there not aware of it.
Does anyone know of any research or papers on the subject? or any leading and/or current researchers on the topic? Another thing is what separates them from environmental activists?
http://www.livescience.com/32085-wildlife-crime-criminology.html
there are two areas of criminology that can come under the environmental title. One is looking at the kinds of 'harms' that are produced as a result of pollution, denigration of habitat for humans and animals, abuse of environmental human rights (See rob White's work on Green Criminology for an introduction. The other is related to crime prevention through environmental design, lighting, street furniture, CCTV, town planning etc
there are two areas of criminology that can come under the environmental title. One is looking at the kinds of 'harms' that are produced as a result of pollution, denigration of habitat for humans and animals, abuse of environmental human rights (See rob White's work on Green Criminology for an introduction. The other is related to crime prevention through environmental design, lighting, street furniture, CCTV, town planning etc
To add a bit to Elaine's comment.
Indeed you'll find most publications on harming the environment as green criminology studies, but recently (as the publication you attached) there is a bit of a cross over.
Environmental criminology is mainly on the relationship between geographical characteristics and crime. Most analysis are focused on using spatial methodology and GIS to analyse crime patterns such as hot spots.
If you have a look at the work by Andrew Lemieux (at the Nscr) you'll find the cross over studies on spatially analysing poaching in Africa, including both environmental and green criminology topics.
Maybe you can find insight in our paper "Self-protective behaviour against crime in
urban settings: Diagnosis through survey and Geographic Information Systems"
Уважаемая Элейн! В современной российской криминологии формируется самостоятельная отрасль - экологическая криминология. В 2006 году в Санкт-Петербурге издан учебник "Экологическая криминология".
Macedonian language have Environmental Criminalistics,
I am the author of a textbook Environmental Criminalistics,
We distinguish Criminalistics and Criminology. I analyze environmental crimes in the book, and methods of detecting, proving and clarifying the environmental crimes.
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