Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
UndergraduateTAS-HGA3442025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Outline examples of environmental crime or harm within their specific local, national, or international contexts.
- Apply key green criminological concepts and theories to explain environmental crime or harm.
- Critically analyse preventative and regulatory responses to environmental crime and harm.
- Communicate your ideas clearly in verbal and written form.
- Module 1: Theory and Concepts
- Green criminology and environmental crime; Eco-global criminology and transnational environmental crime; Social intersections and environmental harm; Ecojustice and ecocide
- Module 2: Environmental Harm
- Representations of environmental crime; Dimensions of environmental crime; Environmental victims
- Module 3: Ecology and Harm
- Climate change and social transformation; Polluting the planet; Abuse and harm to animals; Threats to biodiversity
- Module 4: Criminal Justice Responses
- Environmental crime prevention; Environmental regulation; Environmental forensic studies; Policing environmental crime; Sentencing tools to fight environmental crime; Greening justice
- Module 5: Widening the Scope
- Environmental crimes of the powerful; Environmental activism
- Module 6: Bringing it all Together
- Four ways of eco-global criminology; Theorising Green criminology
Explores the nature of environmental crime and its social regulation. The subject has three main topical concerns: First, to investigate the nature of environmental crime from the point of view of legal, ecological and justice perspectives, with an emphasis on how environmental harm is socially constructed. Second, to investigate the nature of regulatory mechanisms and the social control of environmental crime, by considering issues surrounding law enforcement practices, compliance mechanisms, prosecution, and crime prevention as these pertain to the environment. Third, to investigate the nature of the relationship between changes to specific environments and the criminalisation process, with particular reference to the causes and contexts of environmental crime, the social processes that underpin environmental victimisation and how the law is mobilised in relation to conflicts over environmental issues
The subject provides an overview of contemporary developments in green criminology, and in doing so offers a theoretical understanding of key concepts and debates pertaining to environmental crime, and exposure to concrete case studies relating to the regulation of environmental harm.
- Blog (20%)
- Case Study (30%)
- Major Essay (40%)
- Tutorial Participation (10%)
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Entry requirements
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Conditional requisite: 25 credit points at Introductory level or higher
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Weekly recorded lectures or equivalent (1.5 hours) and weekly Zoom tutorials (1.5 hours) or weekly online discussion forums (1.5 hours)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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