Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide

This book outlines the elements of a green cultural criminology, offering an invitation to cultural criminologists to adopt a green view of the consumption landscape and the growth of environmental harms, and correspondingly, to green criminologists to explore cultural representations and conflicts associated with the natural environment.

Author: Avi Brisman, Nigel South
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/28/2014
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780415630740

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 658

About the Author

Avi Brisman (MFA, JD, PhD) is an assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY (USA). His writing has appeared in such journals as Contemporary Justice Review, Crime, Law and Social Change, Crime Media Culture, Critical Criminology, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, Race and Justice, Theoretical Criminology, and Western Criminology Review, among others. He co-edited the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology (2013) with Professor Nigel South of the University of Essex, as well as Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues with Professor South and Professor Rob White of the University of Tasmania (Ashgate, 2014).

Nigel South is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and an adjunct professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. He serves on several editorial boards and is the European Editor of Critical Criminology. In 2013 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology.