Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives Book

List of abbreviations vii

List of figures and tables ix

Notes on contributors xi

Introduction Rob White xv

Part I Global problems

1 Globalisation and environmental harm Rob White 3

2 Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and a criminological issue Tim Boekhout van Solinge 20

3 The global transference of toxic harms Diane Heckenberg 37

4 Global warming, global crime: a green criminological perspective Michael J. Lynch Paul B. Stretesky 62

Part II Specific issues

5 The Canadian-Alberta tar sands: a case study of state-corporate environmental crime Russell Smandych Rodney Kueneman 87

6 The illegal reptile trade as a form of conservation crime: a South African criminological investigation Joe Herbig 110

7 The applicability of crime prevention to problems of environmental harm: a consideration of illicit trade in endangered species Melanie Wellsmith 132

8 The polluting behaviour of the multinational corporations in China Yang Shuqin 150

Part III Alternative visions

9 The indiscriminate criminalisation of environmentally beneficial activities Avi Brisman 161

10 The big grey elephants in the backyard of Huelva, Spain Lorenzo Natali 193

11 The criticality of global environmental crime and the response of chaos criminology Noriyoshi Takemura 210

12 The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity: transnational crime, social exclusion, victims and rights Nigel South 228

Index 249