Introduction

This chapter begins by outlining how criminologists have, over the last three decades, come to address environmental issues and problems, exposing political inertia, failures of regulation, and avoidance of corporate, state, and personal responsibility regarding environmental harms and threats, and preservation of the environment. From here, it offers brief descriptions of 38 substantive chapters in this second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Connections between the chapters are drawn, and the rationale for the order and grouping of chapters is explained.