from Part IV - Politics, Power, State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2020
In this chapter we provide an overview of the development of green criminology and focus specifically on a political economic perspective within green criminology that builds on the treadmill of production tradition in environmental sociology and ecological Marxism.This perspective calls for a scientifically grounded harms-based approach that studies green crimes, which are defined as unnecessary ecological disorganization.The treadmill of production framework organizes environmental destruction (or, ecological disorganization) into ecological withdrawals (i.e. the removal of resources from nature) and ecological additions (i.e. pollution).We review green criminological work in these two areas.We next provide an overview of research that links the traditional criminological perspective, social disorganization, to green crimes.We then turn to a discussion of how the treadmill of production impacts nonhuman species.We finish our review of political economic green criminology with some thoughts on the role of non-state actors in the treadmill of production, environmental enforcement and what we call the treadmill of law.
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