Animal abuse registries: expanded interest in animal protection mimics other criminal justice policies, but should green criminologists hop on the band-wagon?

Lynch, Michael J.; Genco, Leonard J.

doi:10.1080/10282580.2018.1531713

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“…Consequently, green cultural criminologists take a harm-based approach grounded in the recognition that many environmental harms are not officially illegal and that non-human animals as well as the natural environment should be regarded as victims of such harms, a status typically reserved in “mainstream” criminology for humans (Moloney and Chambliss, 2014; Opsal and O’Connor Shelley, 2014). Critical green criminologists, then, employ a non-anthropocentric lens when considering questions of harm and (in)justice (see Lynch and Genco, 2018; Wyatt et al, 2013). I adopt that lens in this analysis of PAW Patrol .…”

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“Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help”: Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol

Kennedy

2020

Crime, Media, Culture

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With few exceptions, cultural criminologists have yet to investigate how crime, criminalized individuals, and punishment are depicted in children’s television programming. Undertaking the case study of the popular animated children’s series PAW Patrol, I find that crime is committed predominantly by literal outsiders and that wrongdoers are temporarily warehoused or forced to engage in hard labor. In this world, politicians are presented as incompetent or unethical and the state, either incapable of delivering or unwilling to provide basic social services to citizens, relies on the PAW Patrol corporation to investigate crime, rescue non-human animals in states of distress, and recycle. I argue that the series suggests to audiences that we can and should rely on corporations and technological advancements to combat crime and conserve, with responsibilized individuals assisting in this endeavor. Ultimately, PAW Patrol echoes core tenets of neoliberalism and encourages complicity in a global capitalist system that (re)produces inequalities and causes environmental harms.

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“Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help”: Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol

Kennedy

2020

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…The related criminological literature examines the definition of crimes against animals [18,19]; the ways in which animals are killed, legally and illegally [20]; and the social control of crimes against animals [21][22][23]. In this way, criminology has created a space in which crimes/harms affecting animals can be addressed.…”

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“…Counting the number of animals humans harm or kill is no easy task. Harms against animals are widespread in society and include the violent victimization of farm, laboratory, and companion animals [18,22]. Some of these topics are widely explored outside of criminology (e.g., on laboratory animal harms, see [26]; for a review and classification of the related literature, see [27]).…”

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Deer Slayers: Examining the Scope of and Arguments for and against Legal Deer Theriocide in the US

Lynch

Genco

2023

Sustainability

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Deer hunting has a long history in the US. It is supported by hunting cultures, described as necessary for protecting forest/plant biodiversity and ecosystems, but opposed by animal welfare and rights advocates as cruel. Using multiple literature sources, we examine the trade-off between protecting deer and ecosystems from harm in the context of contemporary America. We examine various approaches for exploring harms affecting nonhuman animal populations found in the green criminological, environmental sociology, wildlife conservation and management, and ecological literature. We argue that making sense of these opposing positions requires examining the extent of deer hunting to quantify those harms in some way. Here, we examine reported deer kills for US states for the period 1999–2020. These data indicate that nearly 7 million deer are taken annually in the US. We also examined some hypothesized correlates of deer harvesting across states. While these data tell us something about the number of deer killed, these data alone are insufficient. We argue no clear conclusion about the acceptability of deer hunting can be reached given the difficulty rectifying opposing moral/philosophical positions on deer hunting, opposing deer management objectives, and scientific evidence on the ecological impacts of deer populations in the US under contemporary conditions that include shrinking forest ecosystems and impaired ecosystem stability.

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“…In conservation criminology, wildlife crimes are more likely to be defined as violations of law and include empirical studies of poaching (Lemieux & Clarke, 2009; Pires & Clarke, 2012) and illegal fishing (Petrossian et al, 2018, 2015). Less attention has been paid to other harms against animals such as those on factory farms (Fiber-Ostrow & Lovell, 2016; Gray, 2016; Wrock, 2016) or the agricultural/industrial exploitation of animal labor (Stretesky, Long, & Lynch, 2013; Lynch & Genco, 2018.…”

Section: What Is Green Crime?mentioning

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“…In that view, it is important to draw attention to how power structures create/influence definitions of crime, how the organization of law and law enforcement focuses its power and attention on the individual and the powerless, and how those processes shaped criminology and its focus on powerless street offenders. For example, while individuals certainly engage in behaviors that pollute ecosystems, corporate pollution matters more; while individuals violate local pesticide ordinances, it is pesticide manufacturers, corporate farms, golf courses, and so on that should draw attention; though individuals can cut down trees, globally, the bigger problem is economically driven deforestation; while individuals may harm a companion or farm animal or member of a wildlife species, the bigger harms are caused by the animal treadmill of production, including the pet industry (breeders and wildlife “kidnappers”; Sollund, 2013), factory farming, the laboratory animal industry, the clothing industry, and so on (Lynch & Genco, 2018).…”

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Green Criminology and Environmental Crime: Criminology That Matters in the Age of Global Ecological Collapse

Lynch

2019

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime

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An overview of green criminology (GC) is provided. That substantial literature is not easily summarized, and here, some core issues are reviewed: defining green crimes, the scope of GC, measuring green crimes, and empirical studies of green crimes. Special attention is paid to political economic approaches to GC, which was the foundation for GC. Connections are made to environmental sociology, theories of metabolic rift and unequal ecological exchange, and scientific evidence on planetary boundaries and ecological footprints. Examples of widespread human and nonhuman being green victimization are reviewed. In an era of anthropogenic-driven global ecological collapse, academic disciplines must pay increased attention to ecological disorganization, ecosystem destruction, and excessive production/consumption, which is the proper subject matter of GC.

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Animal abuse registries: expanded interest in animal protection mimics other criminal justice policies, but should green criminologists hop on the band-wagon?

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

“Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help”: Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol

“Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help”: Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol

Deer Slayers: Examining the Scope of and Arguments for and against Legal Deer Theriocide in the US

Green Criminology and Environmental Crime: Criminology That Matters in the Age of Global Ecological Collapse

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