Shaw, Julia: Green Crime

Green Crime uses true crime stories and social science to fundamentally redefine our relationship with the planet and each other. It is a fresh, fascinating and rigorously scientific book that helps us to understand some of the biggest dangers of our time.

Rooted in her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Dr Shaw plunges the reader into the world of green criminology, applying insights from eco-psychology and environmental law to help disentangle why and how environmental crimes are being committed.

This book reframes and personalises issues that are often so vast that they cannot be comprehended. Each chapter follows a main criminal case to illustrate a different facet of how, and why, we are destroying the planet and justifying atrocities against humans along the way. For each case she asks: Who are the people behind environmental destruction and death? What are their, and our, justifications? Are these actions crimes? If not, should they be? What legal loopholes are they currently exploiting? And most importantly, how do we disarm the threats to our future?