ABSTRACT
Green criminology is concerned with crimes and harms affecting the environment, the planet and the associated impacts on human and non-human life. Since the early 1990s it has developed into a fertile area of study bringing together a range of research interests and theoretical orientations (see e.g. South and Brisman, 2013; Beirne and South, 2007; Sollund, 2008;White, 2010). Green criminology is not based on any single theory or school of thought but is better seen as an evolving perspective (South, 1998b: 212-13). It can be defined as:
a framework of intellectual, empirical and political orientations toward primary and secondary harms, offences and crimes that impact in a damaging way on the natural environment, diverse species (human and non-human) and the planet.
