W2: Green Criminology Flashcards
What is green criminology
A diverse in coverage and evolving theoretically, related to the environment and to species other than humans
What did carrabine n south say about typologies of harms and crimes
One suggestive way of differentiating clusters of harms and crimes is by classifying some as primary
What is primary typologies of harms and crimes
Resulting directly from the destruction and degradation of earth’s resources
What are secondary typologies of harms and crimes
Those crimes and harms that are symbolic, with or dependent on such efforts and destruction made to regulate or prevent it
What are the four types of green crimes and harms made by N South
Crimes of air pollution
Crimes and harms of deforestation
Crimes against non human species
Crimes of water and ground pollution
What is Nigel souths foundation on studies of regulation, disasters and corporate and state violation
A substantial subset of what one might think of as green or environmental crime also involves corporations and states
South argued that the study of pollution and disasters by subtle event case studies constitutes the first significant potential stream of work in this emergent field
What is Nigel south foundation on legal and social censures
This refers to how the acts might be both categories and responded to
Questions whether they should be crimes or not
What is Nigel south foundation on social movements and environmental politics
This covers the range of political and social pressures groups and activists responding to environmental problems
Campaigning for change and dealing with disputes
Primary green crimes
There are four categories of crime; air pollution, deforestation, species decline, and water pollution
Secondary green crimes
Those that are the product of the flouting of rules relating to environmental disasters, this includes state violence against oppositional groups and hazardous waste dumps
What are white’s three key areas of focus for green criminology
- Environmental rights and environmental justice- sees environmental rights as an extension of human rights
- ecological citizenship and ecological justice- sees humans as merely one part of the complex system
- animal rights and species justice- focuses on anti discrimination, seeing non humans as having rights
What is Ulrich Becks risk society
The gain in power from techno economic progress is being increasingly overshadowed by the production of risks
Beck argues the advances in knowledge is a considerable threat
We are producing risks that are pretentiously devastating
What does beck mean by external risks
In traditional societies these are associated with nature e,g infectious diseases, poor harvests, floods
What does beck mean by manufactured risks
Created by the impact of our developing knowledge on the world
