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  • 20 - Green Crime and the Treadmill of Production

  • from Part IV - Politics, Power, State
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 331-346

  • Summary

    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.

  • 12 - Greening the criminological landscape

  • Ana Rodas, Western Sydney University, Melanie Simpson, Paddy Rawlinson, Western Sydney University, Ronald Kramer, University of Auckland, Emma Ryan, Deakin University, Victoria, Emmeline Taylor, City University London, Reece Walters, Deakin University, Victoria, Alan Beckley, Western Sydney University, Chris Cunneen, University of Technology, Sydney, Ashlee Gore, Western Sydney University, Amanda Porter, University of Melbourne, Scott Poynting, Western Sydney University, Emma Russell, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book:
    Crime, Deviance and Society
    Published online:
    31 October 2020
    Print publication:
    25 August 2020, pp 296-319

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on green criminology, which continues to emerge and evolve as a dynamic multidisciplinary approach to addresses behaviours and actions that compromise and threaten the integrity of the planet. Walters et al. (2013: 4) summarise green criminology as ‘a collection of new and innovative voices within the criminological lexicon, and its engagement with diverse narratives seeks to identify, theorise and respond to environmental issues of both global and local concern. The expansion of green criminological perspectives serves to harness and mobilise academic, activist and governmental interests to preserve, protect and develop environmental issues’. Green criminology's agenda inevitably involves an examination of the intersection of the concepts of harm, power and justice; and also of the ways in which power is mobilised to justify a market model of capitalism with unjust and harmful consequences for the environment and the world’s most vulnerable peoples. It is thus that green criminologies extend critical rethinking of the parameters and horizons of the criminological landscape.

  • Environmental Crime and Victimization: A Green Criminological Analysis of the Endosulfan Disaster, Kasargod, Kerala

  • Faisal Melangadi
  • Journal:
    International Annals of Criminology / Volume 55 / Issue 2 / November 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2018, pp. 189-204
    Print publication:
    November 2017

  • Pesticides are chemicals used to kill pests and other “rival” organisms which may cause damage to crops in agriculture. In some instances the vast usage of pesticides may create negative effects on the environment and its units like living and non-living organisms. Green criminology counts such harmful activities upon the environment as crimes or harms though such activities can be legal or illegal in nature. The case of the endosulfan disaster that occurred in Kasargod, Kerala can be accounted to environmental harms which detrimentally affected the environment and its units, especially humans. The pesticide endosulfan was sprayed aerially for around 25 years in cashew plantations situated in Kasargod and caused severe diseases and extensive malformations among people living in the region. In this paper the endosulfan disaster of Kasargod is approached through the green criminological perspective of environmental harms.