Seminar: Environmental Crime, Policing & Social Control

Complexity and adaptation are defining features of social control in the era of a triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution) and urgent calls to prevent global ecosystem collapse. The causes of these environmental crises are many and varied, but at their core are human activities and the social norms that reinforce our engagement with nature. Join us in this critical examination of our systems and mechanisms of social control and 'solutions' to the crisis, essential to mitigate future planetary harms to humans and non-humans. 

Green criminology studies the harms against the environment and analyzes the underlying dynamics and drivers of those harms. Since 2012, green criminologists from around the world have organized a (bi)yearly seminar that focuses on different aspects of environmental crime, with the aim of driving green criminological scholarship further by bridging (sub)disciplinary boundaries, but also by bringing together junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners to learn from each other.

Building on those insights from green criminology, in combination with political ecology, geography, law and political economy, and conflict studies, this year’s seminar considers the complex nexus of environmental crime, social control, policing. We consider how the dynamics of social control provide new avenues for green criminology research and responses to environmental crises.

The event aims to foster an open and honest discussion on existing empirical and theoretical successes and challenges in green criminology, to strengthen our field of research. The program aims to achieve balance in terms of researcher gender and experience, representing scholars from different geographic areas, exploring a range of environmental crimes, and engaging with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research.

The seminar is planned prior to the start of the main European Society of Criminology conference (Athens, Greece) for scholars to be able to attend both events without extra travel expenses and carbon footprint. Attendance is free, but registration is required due to limited availability.

Program

• 12.30 – 12.40: Welcome: Dr. Jenny Maher
• 12:40 – 13:30: Plenary 1: Dr. Ian Loader, University of Oxford. Criminology: Towards an ecological reckoning
• 13.30 – 14.30: Panel title TBC
• 13:40 – 14.55: Coffee Break & Chat
• 14:55 – 15:45: Plenary 2: Dr. Anna Di Ronco, University of Bologna. Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals
• 15:45 – 16:00: Closing Remarks: Dr. Nigel South and Dr. Monica Pons

Registration

Registration is required. Please use the online form.