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The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been
contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms.
Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM
food into the social and criminological arena. This book highlights
the criminal and harmful actions of state and corporate officials.
It concludes that corporate and political corruption, uncertain
science, bitter public opposition, growing farmer concern and
bankruptcy, irreversible damage to biodervisty, corporate
monopolies and exploitation, disregard for social and cultural
practices, devastation of small scale and local agricultural
economies, imminent threats to organics, weak regulation, and
widespread political and biotech mistrust - do not provide the
bases for advancing and progressing GM foods into the next decade.
Yet, with the backing of the WTO, the US and UK Governments march
on - but at what cost to future generations?
In this important and original book, Reece Walters examines the
politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological
knowledge is generated. It includes an overview of the politics and
practice of conducting criminological research (drawing upon
material from Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA),
and the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research
agendas, manipulate the processes and production of knowledge and
silence or suppress critical voices through various techniques of
neutralisation. The book argues for 'knowledges of resistance' - a
position that promotes critique, challenges concepts of power and
social order, wrestles with notions of truth and adheres to
intellectual autonomy and independence. It provides invaluable
insights into the relationship between the criminological
researcher, public officials and corporate representatives. Drawing
upon a wide range of interviews with academics and administrators
from government and business, the book provides rare insights into
the ways that knowledge about crime and criminal justice is
produced and consumed, revealing why certain topics of
criminological enquiry are rarely funded and why others receive
ongoing political and governmental support. The book will be
essential reading for anybody interested in the development of
criminological theory and research, and the context and influences
that shape it.
In this important and original book, Reece Walters examines the
politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological
knowledge is generated. It includes an overview of the politics and
practice of conducting criminological research (drawing upon
material from Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA),
and the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research
agendas, manipulate the processes and production of knowledge and
silence or suppress critical voices through various techniques of
neutralisation. The book argues for 'knowledges of resistance' - a
position that promotes critique, challenges concepts of power and
social order, wrestles with notions of truth and adheres to
intellectual autonomy and independence. It provides invaluable
insights into the relationship between the criminological
researcher, public officials and corporate representatives. Drawing
upon a wide range of interviews with academics and administrators
from government and business, the book provides rare insights into
the ways that knowledge about crime and criminal justice is
produced and consumed, revealing why certain topics of
criminological enquiry are rarely funded and why others receive
ongoing political and governmental support. The book will be
essential reading for anybody interested in the development of
criminological theory and research, and the context and influences
that shape it.
The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been
contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms.
Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM
food into the social and criminological arena. This book highlights
the criminal and harmful actions of state and corporate officials.
It concludes that corporate and political corruption, uncertain
science, bitter public opposition, growing farmer concern and
bankruptcy, irreversible damage to biodervisty, corporate
monopolies and exploitation, disregard for social and cultural
practices, devastation of small scale and local agricultural
economies, imminent threats to organics, weak regulation, and
widespread political and biotech mistrust - do not provide the
bases for advancing and progressing GM foods into the next decade.
Yet, with the backing of the WTO, the US and UK Governments march
on - but at what cost to future generations?
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents
criminology's first book-length contribution to the study of water
and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover
topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the
Global North and Global South, water and climate change, the
commodification of water and privatization, water security and
pacification, and activism and resistance surrounding issues of
access and pollution. With examples ranging from Rio de Janeiro to
Flint, Michigan to the Thames River, this original study offers a
comprehensive criminological overview of the contemporary and
historical relationship between water and crime. Coinciding with
the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable
Development," 2018-2028, this timely volume will be of particular
relevance to students and scholars of green criminology, as well as
those interested in critical geography, environmental anthropology,
environmental sociology, political ecology, and the study of
corporate crime and state crime.
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Southern Criminology (Paperback)
Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott, Maximo Sozzo, Reece Walters
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R1,215
Discovery Miles 12 150
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Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in
the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion
of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern
criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct
this bias. This book turns the origin stories of criminology, which
simply assumed a global universality, on their head. It draws on a
range of case studies to illustrate this point: tracing
criminology's long fascination with dangerous masculinities back to
Lombroso's theory of atavism, itself based on an orientalist
interpretation of men of colour from the Global South; uncovering
criminology's colonial legacy, perhaps best exemplified by the
over-representation of Indigenous peoples in settler societies
drawn into the criminal justice system; analysing the ways in which
the sociology of punishment literature has also been based on
Northern theories, which assume that forms of penalty roll out from
the Global North to the rest of the world; and making the case that
the harmful effects of eco-crimes and global warming are impacting
more significantly on the Global South. The book also explores how
the coloniality of gender shapes patterns of violence in the Global
South. Southern criminology is not a new sub-discipline within
criminology, but rather a journey toward cognitive justice. It
promotes a perspective that aims to invent methods and concepts
that bridge global divides and enhance the democratisation of
knowledge, more befitting of global criminology in the twenty-first
century.
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Southern Criminology (Hardcover)
Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott, Maximo Sozzo, Reece Walters
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R4,134
Discovery Miles 41 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in
the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion
of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern
criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct
this bias. This book turns the origin stories of criminology, which
simply assumed a global universality, on their head. It draws on a
range of case studies to illustrate this point: tracing
criminology's long fascination with dangerous masculinities back to
Lombroso's theory of atavism, itself based on an orientalist
interpretation of men of colour from the Global South; uncovering
criminology's colonial legacy, perhaps best exemplified by the
over-representation of Indigenous peoples in settler societies
drawn into the criminal justice system; analysing the ways in which
the sociology of punishment literature has also been based on
Northern theories, which assume that forms of penalty roll out from
the Global North to the rest of the world; and making the case that
the harmful effects of eco-crimes and global warming are impacting
more significantly on the Global South. The book also explores how
the coloniality of gender shapes patterns of violence in the Global
South. Southern criminology is not a new sub-discipline within
criminology, but rather a journey toward cognitive justice. It
promotes a perspective that aims to invent methods and concepts
that bridge global divides and enhance the democratisation of
knowledge, more befitting of global criminology in the twenty-first
century.
Crime: Local and Global and its sister text Criminal Justice: Local
and Global are two new teaching texts that aim to equip the reader
with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of
'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and
criminological approaches, the books illuminate the different ways
in which crime is constructed, conceived and controlled.
International case studies are used to demonstrate how 'crime' and
'justice' are historically and geographically located in terms of
the global/local context, and how processes of criminalisation and
punishment are mediated in contemporary societies.
Crime: Local and Global covers the way local events (such as
prostitution) have wider aspects than previously thought. Links
with people traffickers, international organised crime and violence
cannot be ignored any longer. Each crime or area of activity
selected within this text has a global reach, and is made ever more
possible due to the way globalisation has opened up markets, both
legitimate and illegitimate.
The book's approach and scope emphasises that we can no longer view
'crime' as something which occurs within certain jurisdictions, at
certain times and in particular places. For example, the chapter on
cybercrime highlights the 'illegal' acts that can be perpetrated by
second lifers, anywhere in the world, but are they a crime?
Crime: Local and Global and its sister text Criminal Justice: Local
and Global are two new teaching texts that aim to equip the reader
with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of
'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and
criminological approaches, the books illuminate the different ways
in which crime is constructed, conceived and controlled.
International case studies are used to demonstrate how 'crime' and
'justice' are historically and geographically located in terms of
the global/local context, and how processes of criminalisation and
punishment are mediated in contemporary societies.
Crime: Local and Global covers the way local events (such as
prostitution) have wider aspects than previously thought. Links
with people traffickers, international organised crime and violence
cannot be ignored any longer. Each crime or area of activity
selected within this text has a global reach, and is made ever more
possible due to the way globalisation has opened up markets, both
legitimate and illegitimate.
The book's approach and scope emphasises that we can no longer view
'crime' as something which occurs within certain jurisdictions, at
certain times and in particular places. For example, the chapter on
cybercrime highlights the 'illegal' acts that can be perpetrated by
second lifers, anywhere in the world, but are they a crime?
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