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‘Criminology’ can be defined in a great variety of ways but at its simplest and in the terms most commonly accepted it is taken to be the study of crime, criminals and criminal justice. Characterised by Downes (1988, and see Carrabine et al., 2009, p. 3) as a ‘rendezvous subject’ and remarked upon by Garland and Sparks (2000, p. 190) as having no monopoly on the study of crime, criminology is well positioned to expand its contribution to interdisciplinary research on local and global environmental issues. A green perspective for criminology therefore promises to provide not only a different way of examining and making sense of various forms of harm and crime and responses to them but also an explication of much wider connections that are not generally well understood.
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Beirne, P., South, N. (2012). Greening Criminology. In: Fassbinder, S.D., II, A.J.N., Kahn, R. (eds) Greening the Academy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-101-6_2
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