This edited collection is grounded in a green criminological approach to
understand whether the law, both in effect and implications, reflects,
refracts, or sublimates the social, political and ecological conditions
of our times. Since its initial proposal in the 1990s, green criminology
has focused the criminological gaze on a wide array of harms and crimes
affecting humans, animals other than humans, ecological systems, and the
planet as a whole. As a continuously blossoming field of criminological
inquiry, green criminology recognizes and examines behaviours that are
both illegal and legal (yet detrimental), and in varying ways has made
great efforts to provide insight into harms in a more fulsome manner. At
the same time, there have been many significant legal instances,
domestic, and international, including case law, legislation,
regulation, treaties, agreements and executive directives which have
troubled the law's understanding of green harms, illegal and legal
activity, pushing legal boundaries in the process. Recognizing that
humanity and nature are inextricably integrated*, Green Criminology and
the Law* reflects the range and depth of high-quality research and
scholarship, combining contributions from established scholars willing
to explore new topics and recent entrants who are breaking new scholarly
ground.