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Green Criminology, Policing and Protecting the Environment

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Green Criminology and the Law

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Environmental harms and crimes that affect non-human nature (including animals) have the potential for greater societal impact than the ‘everyday’ crimes that are the subject of mainstream criminal justice and much criminological study. Yet such crimes are often dealt with outside of the mainstream of criminal law and criminal justice. Instead of falling within the remit of the criminal law, some environmental harms are engaged with specifically through the prism of environmental law and within a civil and administrative framework rather than a distinctly criminal justice one.

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    Angus Nurse

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Nurse, A. (2022). Green Criminology, Policing and Protecting the Environment. In: Gacek, J., Jochelson, R. (eds) Green Criminology and the Law. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82412-9_3

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