Introducing Conservation Criminology: Towards Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Environmental Crimes and Risks

Gibbs, Carole; Gore, Meredith L.; McGarrell, Edmund F.; Rivers, Louie

doi:10.1093/bjc/azp045

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“…Specifically, the research setting is the port of Antwerp in Belgium. This setting was chosen because Antwerp is an economically important port and has been referred to in the past as a waste hub 18 . Antwerp handles about 8.5 million TEU 19 annually and is amongst the top three ports in Europe, with Rotterdam and Hamburg 20 .…”

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“…17 NVivo qualitative data analysis software; QSR International Pty Ltd. Version 8, 2008 18 See, for example, Belgian news reports [56][57][58][59] 19 TEU refers to "twenty-foot equivalent unit", a container of 20 feet long, 8 feet high and 8 feet wide. This is used as a standard measuring reference for container traffic.…”

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“…illegal transports of ewaste) for many years [14][15][16]. Eco-global, green and environmental issues are increasingly part of the criminological agenda [3,[17][18][19][20][21], but despite this increased interest in transnational environmental crime, analyses often lack methodological strength. Because empirical studies provide input for theoretical progress, this article responds to the call for more empirical knowledge about transnational environmental crime [17,22,23] by focusing on the characteristics of one particular phenomenon: the illegal transports of electronic waste (e-waste).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is it all going to waste? Illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub

Bisschop

2012

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This article responds to the call for more empirical knowledge about transnational environmental crime. It does so by analysing the case of illegal transports of electronic waste (e-waste) in a European trade hub. Given the complexity and global nature of transnational environmental crime, it is difficult to determine which actors are involved. In this regard, a local research setting allows the actors involved in illegal transports of e-waste to be identified. This research tries to determine whether these actors and their roles can be considered legal or illegal and illustrates the legal-illegal interfaces in e-waste flows. Moreover, this case study analyses the push, pull and facilitating factors and therefore looks at what motivations and opportunities shape the flows of e-waste in locations of origin, transit and destination. The results show that the social organisation and emergence of transnational environmental crime is on a thin line between legal and illegal which needs to be contextualised within the global reality of the locations of origin, transit and destination.

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“…It has been recognised that a socio-legal understanding of the illegal exploitation and destruction of natural resources is critical to successful prevention, detection and control (Herbig and Joubert 2006;Gibbs et al 2010). Considerable progress has been made in using multidisciplinary approaches that integrate diverse expertise to better address the complex challenge of preserving natural resources (Alacs et al 2010;Gibbs et al 2010;Lemieux 2015;Moreto 2016).…”

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CITES, wild plants, and opportunities for crime

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Rutherford²,

Vaglica

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Eur J Crim Policy Res

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The illegal trade in endangered plants damages both the environment and local communities by threatening and destroying numerous species and important natural resources. There is very little research which systematically addresses this issue by identifying specific opportunities for crime. This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study which brings together criminological and conservation science expertise to identify criminal opportunities in the illegal wild plant trade and suggest strategies in order to prevent and mitigate the problem. Methodologically, the study adapts a crime proofing of legislation approach to the UN Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and is based on documentary and interview data. Situational crime prevention is used as a framework to provide points for effective intervention.

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“…1 Despite its popularity, green criminology is sometimes criticized for being antithetical to theory development as it narrowly examines environmental crime when more general theoretical explanations of environmental harm are needed (Gibbs et al 2010). 2 While the study of green crime is rapidly expanding its theoretical orientation to deal with this critique, radical criminologists could do more to contribute to green criminology's theoretical development.…”

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A Proposal for the Political Economy of Green Criminology: Capitalism and the Case of the Alberta Tar Sands

Lynch

Stretesky

Long

2016

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Green criminology was proposed in 1990 to broaden the discipline and illustrate how environmental crime, deviance, and inequality can be interpreted through a critical lens influenced by political economic theory. Green criminology has yet to fulfill that theoretical promise. Instead, the political economic perspective on green criminology remains underdeveloped. The purpose of this work is to contribute to further development of a political economic green criminology by laying out the connection between ecological Marxism and green criminology. To carry out this task we describe five propositions that criminologists must consider when developing a green criminology from a political economic perspective. Importantly, these propositions suggest that the environmentally destructive forces of capitalism are opposed to nature. That is, we argue that green criminologists must come to recognize that capitalism and nature cannot both survive over the long run, and in criminological terms, capitalism is therefore a crime against nature.

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Introducing Conservation Criminology: Towards Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Environmental Crimes and Risks

Cited by 179 publications

References 46 publications

Is it all going to waste? Illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub

Is it all going to waste? Illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub

CITES, wild plants, and opportunities for crime

A Proposal for the Political Economy of Green Criminology: Capitalism and the Case of the Alberta Tar Sands

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