Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes - Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes climate change from a criminological perspective. Four state-corporate crimes are examined: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission related to the mitigation of emissions; socially organized denial; and climate crimes of empire. The final chapter reviews policies to achieve climate justice.

List of contents

Contents
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations  
1. “This Was a Crime:” Climate Change as a Criminological Concern                          
2. “Beyond Catastrophic:” The Climate Crisis, Carbon Criminals, and Fossil Capitalism
3. “When Did They Know”? Climate Crimes of Continued Extraction and Rising Emissions
4. “The Politics of Predatory Delay:” Climate Crimes of Political Omission and Socially Organized Denial
5. “Slowing the Rise of the Oceans”? Obama’s Mixed Legacy and Trump’s Climate Crimes
6. “Blood for Oil,” Pentagon Emissions, and the “Politics of the Armed Lifeboat:” Climate Crimes of Empire
7. The “Climate Swerve:” Hope, Resistance, and Climate Justice       
References     
Index
 

About the author

RONALD C. KRAMER is a professor of sociology and former director of the criminal justice program at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He is the co-author of State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government (Rutgers University Press).

Summary

Analyses the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. The book advances the field of green criminology through an examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald C Kramer, Ronald C. Kramer
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781978805583
• ISBN: 978-1-978805-58-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Print on demand; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies