ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an overview of recent work on environmental crime and regulation. It suggests that when criminologists engage the term 'green', they necessarily manifest the kind of political baggage which comes with dividing the world into distinct—one might say, polar—domains. Environmental criminological texts situated beyond liberal ecology fall into two broad ecophilosophical schools of thought— biocentrism and ecocentrism. The chapter examines the biocentrically informed work of H. Barnett and the ecocentrically based work of T. Benton, as well as that of M. Lynch and P. Stretsky. In critical criminology nature presents as the external factor which shapes and influences the capacity for benign or damaging conduct to materialize in a vast range of contexts. The chapter concludes with a very brief discussion of the kinds of theoretical tools which might be used in place of orthodox framings of environmental crime and its prevention.
