ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a 'green' criminological perspective regarding environmental crimes and harms, describing its breadth and providing definitions of relevant terms. It provides examples of environmental crimes and harms, and the definitional, legal or political challenges these often pose for socio-legal responses. The chapter presents examples of environmental crimes and harms. Clarifying these terms and providing examples is important because they lie at the heart of a longstanding debate among criminologists and socio-legal scholars. In this instance, the question is whether a 'green criminology' should concern itself only with legally defined crimes or also embrace the study of those activities that lie within lawful practice but by some measures of evidence and in the judgement of observers result in harms to other entities that might or should merit legal proscription and response. One way of including the voices of missing victims of environmental crimes, 'quasi-crimes' or harms is to adopt a restorative justice approach.
