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With this monumental work, White (Univ. of Tasmania) has positioned himself as the eminent founder of "green criminology." His work is by far the most comprehensive account of original and synthetic scholarship on green criminology, building the architecture of this criminology subdiscipline by drawing deeply on multifarious disciplines. He informs and infuses green criminology with "ecophilosophy," especially the latter's three major strands of anthropocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism. White moves on to frame this with a trilateral approach to justice--ecocentric, homocentric, and animal-centric. He successfully argues that environmental harm can be conceptualized within these three approaches and adjudicated accordingly. White divides his seminal work into three parts. The first part is an elegant interweaving of cross-disciplinary perspectives into a "theory of environmental crime." Part 2 defines spatial and temporal dimensions of crime and explains it in such sociological terms as class, corporations, capitalism, and resource colonization. The last part formulates societal responses in environmental law enforcement, environmental regulation, environmental crime prevention, and global environmental issues and socio-legal intervention. White's conceptual and theoretical contribution will guide theory, research, and pedagogy in green criminology for decades to come. Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduate and graduate collections in criminology, green criminology, sociology, environmental studies, and environmental justice. T. Niazi University of Wisconsin
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