Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 096: Policing Environmental Problems: Who is Responsible and Who is Accountable
Room: Kafka

Sponsor: Environment and Technology

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University

Description: 

Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual victims that are the norm with "traditional" crimes of interpersonal violence and property crime, green crimes should be given importance if not priority within justice systems.

Yet the policing of environmental problems and crimes is often left to environmental regulators rather than mainstream policing agencies which risks environmental "crimes" being classified as somehow less important than mainstream crimes. This panel considers the question of how environmental problems should be "policed" and who should be responsible for doing so. This includes examining different policies; perspectives and enforcement approaches and some case studies relating to specific environmental problems.

Papers:

“Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment,” Jesse C. Bryant, Yale University

“Corporations, Carbon, and Climate: Examining the Macrosociological Determinants of Corporate Emissions,” Annika Rieger, Singapore Management University

“Environmental Justice as Transformative Justice; Transformative Justice as Environmental Justice,” Jeff Feng, Northwestern University and Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

“Mediating the Human Impacts of Environmental Harms: The Case for an Ecojustice Approach,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University

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