In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and
environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention
being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals,
organisations and even states for polluting activities. These
developments have given rise to a new area of criminological study,
often called green criminology . Yet in all the theorising that has
taken place in this area, there is still a marked absence of
specific focus on those actually suffering harm as a result of
environmental degradation. This book represents a unique attempt to
substantively conceptualise and examine the place of such
environmental victims in criminal justice systems both nationally
and internationally.
Grounded in a comparative approach and drawing on critical
criminological arguments, this volume examines many of the areas
traditionally considered by victimologists in relation to victims
of environmental crime and, more widely, environmental harm. These
include victims rights, compensation, treatment by criminal justice
systems and participation in that process. The book approaches the
issue of environmental victimisation from a social harms
perspective (as opposed to a criminal harms one) thus
problematising the definitions of environmental crime found within
most jurisdictions.
"Victims of Environmental Harm" concludes by mapping out the
contours of further research into a developing green victimology
and how this agenda might inform criminal justice reform and policy
making at national and global levels.This book will be of interest
to researchers across a number of disciplines including
criminology, international law, victimology, socio-legal studies
and physical sciences as well as professionals involved in policy
making processes.
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