ABSTRACT
Indeed green criminology has blossomed into a range of critical discourses examining environmental concerns within notions of power, harm and justice. Since its emergence in the late 1980s, discourses in the greening of the criminological enterprise have adopted various terms and nomenclature in an attempt to harness and capture evolving debates. This chapter untangles the intellectual orientations of green criminology by exploring its origins, developments and scholarly trajectories. It examines what's new about this collection of criminological discourses. The three green criminological perspectives of 'environmental', 'ecological' and 'species' provide the trunk from which topics branch out and are theorised through established critical lenses. In 2001, Kibert has asserted that a 'green justice' should seek to redress the discrimination of ethnic and socially disadvantaged minorities who experience 'environmental racism and victimology' and the disproportionate effects of air pollution and advanced capitalism. Thus, green criminologies extend critical rethinking of the parameters and horizons of the criminological landscape.
