Green Criminology and the Law

James Gacek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. Richard Jochelson is Professor and Dean of Law at Robson Hall Law School in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1 - It Isn’t Easy Being Green: The Trials and Triumphs of the Green Criminology-Law Nexus.- Section I - Reconsidering Legal Actors and Institutional Mechanisms.  Chapter 2 - Standard Concerns: An Examination of Public-Interest Considerations with Respect to Prosecutions of Environmental Advocates and Indigenous Land Defenders.- Chapter 3 - Green Criminology, Policing and Protecting the Environment.- Chapter 4 - Environmental Crime, Ecological Expertise and Specialist Environment Courts.- Chapter 5 - Standing Trial for Lily: How Open Rescue Activists Mobilize Their Criminal Prosecutions for Animal Liberation.- Section II - Challenging Legislation and Legal Regulations. Chapter 6 - Fish Farms in Canada: Where is the Law?.- Chapter 7 - Plastic: From Miracle Material to Detritus and Disaster: A History of Benefits, Harms, Pandemics and the Limitations of Regulation.- Chapter 8 - Criminalizing Environmentally Beneficial Activities: Hemp and Canada’s Cannabis Act.- Chapter 9 - Dirty Legislation for Dirty Work.- Section III - Retracing Legal Rights and Responsibilities. Chapter 10 - Palliative Animal Law: The War on Animal Cruelty.- Chapter 11 - Responsibility in End Time: Environmental Harm and the Role of Law in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 12 - Te Awa Tupua: An Exemplary Environmental Law? Sarah Monod de Froideville and Rebekah Bowling.- Chapter 13 - Mother Earth in Environmental Activism: Indigeneity, Maternal Thinking, and Animism in the Keystone Pipeline Debate.- Section IV - Future Directions for Green Criminology and Law. Chapter 14 - Widening the Scope of ‘Earth’ Jurisprudence and ‘Green’ Criminology? Towards Preserving Extra-Terrestrial Heritage Sites on Celestial Bodies.- Chapter 15 - Red, White and Green: White Paper Assimilation Strategies in an Era of Environmental Crisis.- Chapter 16 - Restorative Justice Conferencing: A Vehicle for Repairing Harm Emanating from Lawful but Awful Activity.- Chapter 17 - Green Criminology and an International Law Against Ecocide: Using Strict Liability and Superior Responsibility to Prevent State and Corporate Denial of Environmental Harms.