2025 Meeting of the Green Criminology Working Group: Environmental Crime, Policing & Social Control
On 3 September 2025, at the American College of Greece, the Green Criminology Working Group of the European Society of Criminology came together at a seminar organised around the theme '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.
Programme
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Opening Welcome and Introduction on Green Criminology in Greece Jenny Maher and Georgios Dimitriou |
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| 12:45 – 13:35 | Plenary 1 Dr. Ian Loader, University of Oxford – Criminology: Towards an ecological reckoning |
| 13.35 – 14.45 | Panel
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| 14.45 – 15.10 | Coffee & Chat Break |
| 15:10 – 16:00 | Plenary 2 Dr. Anna Di Ronco, University of Bologna: Human control and ‘management’ of nonhuman animals |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Closing remarks Nigel South and Monica Pons |