Global environmental harm
Subtitle: criminological perspectives
By: edited by Rob White
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cullompton, Devon; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781843927976; 9781843927969
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.