Criminology and the Anthropocene

Shearing, Clifford

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“…Lately, in responding to new challenges in the Anthropocene epoch, there has been a ''wholehearted'' call for connecting criminology, probably via GC, with security studies (Shearing 2015;South 2015). This has been firmly objected to by Floyd (2015:277) who believes that this idea is ''analytically weak'', and that ''not only does it necessitate the rethinking of the meaning of crime, but also criminalisation [not securitisation] can be used to achieve compliance with environmental legislation''.…”

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The Conceptual Compatibility Between Green Criminology and Human Security: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Framework for Examinations into Green Victimisation

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Wyatt

2016

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The overriding aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that can be used to systematically examine the victimisation from environmental or green crime. By analysing the conceptual and pragmatic compatibilities between two distinctive academic fields of green criminology and human security (HS) and by discussing the impacts of timber trafficking on HS, it is argued that it would be logical, achievable and fruitful to employ a broad HS perspective to advance the understanding of the mechanism of green victimisation with a focus on human victims.

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The Conceptual Compatibility Between Green Criminology and Human Security: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Framework for Examinations into Green Victimisation

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Wyatt

2016

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“…For example, 20% of the Amazon is gone. Human activities have not only polluted air, land and water, but also altered the world's topography, destroyed habitats, contributed to the insecurity of all of Earth's species, and caused widespread extinction ( Bar-On et al 2018;Harari 2015;Shearing 2015;White 2012). Indeed, the situation for free-born ("wild") nonhuman animals is dramatic.…”

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Wildlife Management, Species Injustice and Ecocide in the Anthropocene

Sollund

2019

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Norway has been signatory to the Council of Europe's Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (1979) (otherwise known as the "Bern Convention") since 1986. Nevertheless, every year, Norwegian authorities authorize the killing of brown bears, lynx, wolves and wolverines, which are listed as strictly protected fauna species by the Bern Convention. Norway has a responsibility to protect these species and has several times been brought to court by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for failure to satisfy their duties under this international legal instrument. This article discusses Norway's large predator policy and its compliance with the Bern Convention through an analysis of court decisions and judicial reasoning from the perspective of species justice for nonhumans.

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“…It is this shift from considering human crime alone to harm against the environment through both legal and illegal means that has distinguished green criminology from other branches of criminology. More recently legislative attention is being given to the criminological aspects of climate change, from the point of view of human contribution to global warming, greenhouse emissions and sea-level rise (Shearing 2015;Zimmerer 2014). At a planetary scale the destruction of the environment is evidence of ecocide.…”

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Proof of Ecocide: Towards a Forensic Practice for the Proposed International Crime Against the Environment

Ahmed

2018

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This article discusses developments in international environmental justice alongside contemporary environmental forensics techniques. The article begins by providing an introduction to ecocide, the proposed international crime for the protection of the environment under International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the concept of the legal threshold of harm. It argues that forensic awareness has a role to play in developing new legal frameworks for the protection of the environment. It describes one particular approach to the practice of environmental investigations, using the example of remote sensing. From an international justice perspective, the concern of the present article is a discussion of how innovations in remote sensing technologies have allowed non court actors, civil society groups and nongovernmental organizations access to scientific evidence. It concludes by making recommending towards establishing forensic standards for admissible evidence of ecocide crime.

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Criminology and the Anthropocene

Cited by 38 publications

References 62 publications

The Conceptual Compatibility Between Green Criminology and Human Security: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Framework for Examinations into Green Victimisation

The Conceptual Compatibility Between Green Criminology and Human Security: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Framework for Examinations into Green Victimisation

Wildlife Management, Species Injustice and Ecocide in the Anthropocene

Proof of Ecocide: Towards a Forensic Practice for the Proposed International Crime Against the Environment

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