ABSTRACT
Criminologists have been slow to consider climate change as a relevant issue. This chapter addresses that shortcoming by drawing on climate change research to illustrate the intersection of criminology with the science of global warming. Our goal is to explore the variety of harms associated with climate change, examine how these harms impinge on humans (as individuals, populations, cultures, and societies), non-human species, and the natural environment, and to describe how climate change may impact crime, its definition, and crime policy.
