Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective

Rob D. White is the Director of the Criminology Research Unit at University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.  He is also the editor of Controversies in Environmental Sociology (Cambridge University Press), as well as author of Crimes Against Nature: Environmental criminology and ecological justice and editor of both Environmental Crime: A Reader and Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives, with Taylor & Francis.  His book Transnational Environmental Crime: Toward an Eco-Global Criminology is to be published by Routledge in 2011.

• The Criminology of Climate Change.- It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective.- Heading Toward a New Criminogenic Climate: Climate Change, Political Economy, and Environmental Security.- The Cultural Silence of Climate Change Contrarianism.- Is Global warming a State-Corporate Crime?- Climate Change in the Courts: A US and Global Perspective.- Environmental Enforcement Networks: Their Role in Climate Change Enforcement.- Oil Production, Climate Change, and Species Decline: The Case of Norway.- Climate Change, Gender, and Natural Disasters: Social Differences and Environment-Related Victimisation.- Natural Disasters and Crime: Criminological Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.- Uncontrollable Nuclear Power Accidents and Fatal Environmental Harm.- A Proposal for a New Vehicle Based Carbon Tax.- Conclusion.