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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on July 16, 2009
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azp045
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azp045 (2009)
© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Introducing Conservation Criminology

Towards Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Environmental Crimes and Risks

Carole Gibbs*, Meredith L. Gore, Edmund F. McGarrell and Louie Rivers, III

* School of Criminal Justice/Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 508 Baker Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; gibbsca1{at}msu.edu.


  Abstract

Environmental crimes, noncompliance and risks create significant harm to the health of humans and the natural world. Yet, the field of criminology has historically shown relatively little interest in the topic. The emergence of environmental or green criminology over the past decade marks a shift in this trend, but attempts to define a unique area of study have been extensively criticized. In the following paper, we offer a conceptual framework, called conservation criminology, designed to advance current discussions of green crime via the integration of criminology with natural resource disciplines and risk and decision sciences. Implications of the framework for criminological and general research on environmental crime and risks are discussed.

Key Words: conservation criminology • environmental risk • environmental crime • green criminology


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