Undergraduate TAS-HGA344-2023
Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
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Duration
14 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Prior study
Not required
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Subject details
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Explain the key elements of the Green Criminological perspective.
- Evaluate key criminological concepts and theories used in the study of environmental harm.
- Apply the green criminological perspective, concepts and theories to explain environmental degradation, differential victimisation, animal abuse and threats to global ecology.
- Communicate your ideas clearly in verbal and written form.
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- Study schedule to be announced prior to the commencement of the study term
Others
Conditional requisite: 25 credit points at introductory level or higher
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
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.
- Online Activities/Workshop Exercises (30%)
- Description of an Environmental Crime (20%)
- Major Essay (40%)
- Online Participation (10%)
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