ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to raise questions about political repression of green movements, by adopting a bottom-up perspective and providing critical viewpoints on state repression seen in the Austrian case. The Austrian case is important because it demonstrates the extent of state power to define crime and how that power can be studied by green criminologists interested in social movements. The chapter discusses factors that might have triggered the repression against animal rights advocates. It talks about the repression of Austrian animal advocates. However, the case has relevance to animal rights movements internationally, as well as to environmental movements which challenge the destruction of nature. The animal rights movement might have economic effects on its opponents and on society for several reasons. Trends in state control measures have changed over the years, and have become particularly concerned with assessing risks and managing both real and imaginary threats.
