ABSTRACT
Conservation criminology is a research framework developed at Michigan State University (MSU) to advance multi-and interdisciplinary research on environmental risks (criminal or not) that occur at the intersection of social and ecological systems. The conservation criminology framework flows from the premise that using multiple disciplines better advances efforts to understand and address environmental issues than relying on a single discipline. Perspectives from disciplines outside the base of conservation criminology, such as psychology, can also offer opportunities to reduce environmental impacts that fall within the framework. The framework has also been used to examine pollution-related risks/crimes, including the international trade in electronic waste and multiple dimensions of climate change. Due to the relative recency of the conservation criminology framework, formal assessments in the literature are limited. As the framework matures, the introduction of criminological theories to issues that have traditionally lacked insight from criminology represents another valuable contribution.
