Global environmental harm : criminological perspectives / / edited by Rob White.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: White, R. D. 1956-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 260 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Global problems. Globalisation and environmental harm / Rob White ; Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and a criminological issue / Tim Boekhout van Solinge ; The global transference of toxic harms / Diane Heckenberg ; Global warming, global crime : a green criminological perspective / Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky -- Specific issues. The Canadian-Alberta tar sands : a case study of state-corporate environmental crime / Russell Smandych and Rodney Kueneman ; The illegal reptile trade as a form of conservation crime : a South African criminological investigation / Joe Herbig ; The applicability of crime prevention to problems of environmental harm : a consideration of illicit trade in endangered species / Melanie Wellsmith ; The polluting behaviour of the multinational corporations in China / Yang Shuqin -- Alternative visions. The indiscriminate criminalisation of environmentally beneficial activities / Avi Brisman ; The big grey elephants in the backyard of Huelva, Spain / Lorenzo Natali ; The criticality of global environmental crime and the response of chaos criminology / Noriyoshi Takemura ; The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity : transnational crime, social exclusion, victims and rights / Nigel South.