Angus Nurse Knihy

Focusing on criminology, the book situates environmental harm within the criminal justice framework, exploring topics like species justice and the green movement. It offers a comprehensive introduction for students, featuring chapter objectives, self-study questions, and numerous case studies. This approach encourages critical thinking and deep engagement with the material, making it an invaluable resource for understanding the intersection of crime and environmental issues.

Examining the tension between criminal justice and civil liberties, this book offers a critical criminology perspective that challenges the notion of justice as a pursuit of truth. It posits that modern criminal justice systems often serve as instruments of state power, undermining individual rights and freedoms. Through this lens, the work explores the implications of state authority on personal liberties, inviting readers to reconsider the role of justice in society.

Corporate environmental crime is portrayed as a natural outcome of neoliberal markets and modern consumer culture. The book critiques traditional criminal justice approaches, suggesting they may fall short in addressing the complexities of current environmental harms. It explores the intersection of corporate practices and environmental degradation, emphasizing the need for more effective responses to these pressing issues.

The book explores the international context of animal killing and harm, assessing the effectiveness of existing legislation, policies, and sentencing. It addresses the moral responsibilities humans have towards animals within ecological and legal frameworks. Featuring a section on further reading and useful organizations, it serves as a valuable resource for criminologists, ecologists, animal protection advocates, and individuals interested in the intersections of law, society, and environmental issues.

Police shootings and incarceration inequalities are two examples of the legacy of slavery in the US and UK. Offering a criminological exploration of the case for slavery and anti-black racism reparations in the context of enduring harms and differential treatment of black citizens, this book refutes the policy perspectives that oppose reparations.

It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand miscarriages of justice. This text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of miscarriages of justice, highlighting difficulties in defining them, examining their dimensions, forms, scale and impact and exploring key cases and their causes.

The concept of wildlife criminology reaches new boundaries in this illuminating new study of exploitation of animals and its social implications. Reviewing harms like exploitation and trade, blood sports and wildlife as food, it considers the rights of animals as sentient beings and the impact of crimes on inter-human attitudes and violence.