This collection brings together original research to explore the importance of eco-global criminology as a dynamic paradigm for theory and action on environmental issues in the 21st century. It serves as an excellent introduction to the topic, providing theoretical, methodological and substantive insights into the nature of global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives.

Rob White is Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia. In addition to this he is the Director of both the Criminology Research Unit and the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.

IntroductionPart 1: Global Problems 1. Globalisation and Environmental Harm 2. Equatorial Deforestation as a Harmful Practice and Criminological Issue 3. The Global Transference of Toxic Harms 4. Global Warming, Global Crime: A Green Criminological PerspectivePart 2: Specific Issues 5. The Canadian-Alberta Tar Sands: A Case Study of State-corporate Environmental Crime 6. The Illegal Reptile Trade as a Form of Conservation Crime: A South African Criminological Introspection 7. The Applicability of Crime Prevention to Problems of Environmental Harm: A Consideration of Illicit Trade in Endangered Species 8. The Polluting Behaviour of the Multi National Corporations in ChinaPart 3: Alternative Visions 9. The Indiscriminate Criminalisation of Environmentally Beneficial Activities 10. The Big Grey Elephants in the Backyard of Huelva, Spain 11. Criticality of Global Environmental Crime, Disparity of Harmful Influence and Chaos/complexity Green Criminology/justice 12. The Ecocidal Tendencies of Late Modernity: Transnational Crime, Social Exclusion, Victims and Rights