Taking a strong criminological focus by firmly situating environmental harm within the context of criminal justice, and with chapters on areas including species justice, the green movement and investigating environmental harm, this book provides students with a pedagogically rich introduction (with chapter objectives, self-study questions, plenty of case studies, and overview of relevant cases) that will engage them and encourage critical thought

Part 1: Introduction and Theory
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Green Criminological Theories
Chapter 2: Species Justice: Animal Rights, Animal Abuse and Violence Towards Humans
Chapter 3: The Causes of Environmental Crime and Criminality
Part 2: Environmental Crime as Global Crime
Chapter 4: The Future Protection of Wildlife: Resolving Wildlife Crime and Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
Chapter 5: Regulating Environmental Harm: Environmental Crime and Governance
Chapter 6: The Criminal Exploitation of Natural Resources
Chapter 7: Climate Change and Environmental Damage
Part 3: Policing, Prosecution and Monitoring Environmental Crime
Chapter 8: The Green Movement: NGOs and Environmental Justice
Chapter 9: Investigating Environmental Crime
Chapter 10: Repairing the Harm: Restorative Justice and Environmental Courts

Angus Nurse is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Middlesex University School of Law where he teaches and researches criminology and law and is Programme Leader for the MA Criminology.  Angus has research interests in green criminology, corporate environmental criminality, critical criminal justice, animal and human rights law and anti-social behaviour.  He is particularly interested in animal law and its enforcement and the reasons why people commit environmental crimes and crimes against animals.  Angus has also researched and published on the links between violence towards animals and human violence.  His first book Animal Harm: Perspectives on why People Harm and Kill Animals was published by Ashgate in 2013, his second; Policing Wildlife: Perspectives on the Enforcement of Wildlife Legislation was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.

Angus is co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology book series (with Rob White from the University of Tasmania and Melissa Jarrell from Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi). Together with Becky Milne (University of Portsmouth) and Sam Poysner (Nottingham Trent University) he is currently working on a book on miscarriages of justice, a subject on which he has contributed to two essay collections from the Justice Gap.