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The article explores how criminology is responding to, and might respond to, the challenges presented by changes in earth systems, and the reasons for them, that the term ‘Anthropocene’ signals. It begins with a very brief review of these developments and the meaning of the term. It then examines the responses within criminology that have emerged under the sign ‘green criminology’. Thereafter it explores how criminology might respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene by using a ‘security governance’ lens.
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Stopping Ecocide and Climate Catastrophe: A Critique of the Criminal Law
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In this short article Dr David Scott questions, from a penal abolitionist perspective, whether the criminal law can be effectively deployed to prevent climate catastrophe. In so doing he questions the goals of influential pressure group Stop Ecocide International and highlights the importance of the recent book Ecocide by Professor David Whyte, which calls for ordinary people all around the world to directly challenge corporate power.
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Environmental Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations
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Clifford Shearing, Cameron Holley, Cameron Harrington, Amanda Kennedy
This article analyzes the implications of the Anthropocene for the governance of security. Drawing on environmental law, green criminology, and international relations, the article examines the development of environmental security scholarship over recent decades and shows similarities and differences in perspectives across the three disciplines. It demonstrates that the Anthropocene represents a significant challenge for thinking about and responding to security and the environment. It argues a rethinking is needed, and this can benefit from reaching across the disciplinary divide in three key areas that have become a shared focus of attention and debate regarding security in the Anthropocene. These are, first, examining the implications of the Anthropocene for our understanding of the environment and security; second, addressing and resolving contests between environmental securities; and third, developing new governance responses that mix polycentric and state-backed regulation to bring safety and security to the planet.
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The Post-Covid Future of the Environmental Crisis Industry and its Implications for Green Criminology and Zemiology
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Smith and Brisman (2021) have argued that our social and cultural orientation toward environmental crises is influenced by the existence of an ‘Environmental Crisis Industry’ (ECI hereafter) that favours environmental ‘solutions’ that are palatable to state corporate interests and the global consumer classes ahead of systemic change. This article, however, argues that the ECI is evolving in the context of political-economic and geopolitical changes that have emerged as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is becoming increasingly focused on renewable energy and the shoring up supply and control over the minerals and natural resources crucial to the energy transition. These, however, are not without their own harms. While green criminology has spent a great deal of time considering the harms and consequences of failing to seriously tackle climate change, it has scarcely considered the potential harms that could emerge if the ECI decided to seriously pursue zero-carbon targets. As the ECI gets more serious, this article considers these potential harms and the implications this has for criminologists and zemiologists interested in climate change and environmental harm.
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Environmental security and the case against rethinking criminology as 'security-ology
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Rita Floyd
In this article I argue against Clifford Shearing’s suggestion that in the age of the Anthropocene the discipline of criminology should be rethought as ‘security-ology’, where concerns of security as a state of being and practices of security (i.e. securitization) and not crime and criminalization dominate the agenda. My objection consists of three key points. First, contra Shearing, I argue that it is analytically weak to describe all political practices concerned with achieving greater justice and/or security as a state of being as security practices. At a minimum, I suggest, relevant actors must conceive of their own actions as security practices, for the latter to count as such. Second, by drawing on literature from Environmental Security Studies I show that elevating environmental issues to security problems does not necessarily produce a more secure environment for people. Instead the best successes – in terms of accomplishing environmental security as a state of being – have ...
GLOBAL CLIMATE GOVERNANCE AND ITS FUTURE: CLIMATE CRIMES [Full Paper
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A climate crime is an output of climate change. And climate change results from anthropogenic emission of a suite of gases (called GHG's) due to fossil fuel use. Certain agricultural and industrial activities and deforestation leading to their increasing concentration in atmosphere, has a potential, over the next few generations to significantly alter global climate. This would result in large change in ecosystems, leading to possible catastrophic disruptions' of livelihood, economic activity, living conditions and human health. Thus an increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, climate change is also likely to increase crimes. An increase in climate change reduces the social control and subsequently amounts to fostering of climate crimes that creates a social conflict. The climate crimes relates to problems like population density and crowding a great emphasis is laid down upon the urbanization, city size and population density. A climate has an independent impact on the variation of crime rates among various places. According to Social Sciences Research Network, " the results show that the temperature has a strong positive effect on a criminal behavior. " Thus the projections based on the premise that violent crimes are more prevalent in warmer temperature. Thus climate is just one of many factors that influence the frequency of conflict. Climate and conflict share a link between themselves, i.e. climatic conditions are directly proportional to the social conflict. Therefore of we could come up with policies that could decouple climate and conflict, might help society in availing the important resources and thus reducing the crime rate subsequently.
Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change
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Giovanni Chiarini
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