The ESRC Green Criminology Research Seminar Series

对不断扩大的全球环境危害及其社会和经济影响的关切已成为当代大众和政治话语的核心。绿色犯罪学于1990年代初开始作为犯罪学的一个可识别的分支出现，近年来已扩大并发展成为一个明确而独特的分支学科，可以被视为对这些关切的一种特殊而重要的学术回应。然而，它在更大的领域仍然被边缘化，那些从事这一高度相关主题的人是孤立的或分裂的群体。尽管如此，在过去几年中出版了一些书籍和文章，绿色犯罪学小组是许多犯罪学会议的一个特点。一个独特的研讨会系列致力于绿色犯罪学是及时和重要的，在创造临界质量的进一步发展，这一重要的新兴领域的学术和牢固地建立一个绿色犯罪网络集中在这些关键问题。绿色犯罪学的许多定义-也被称为生态和环境犯罪学-但从广义上讲，它可以被定义为对环境危害的犯罪学分析，包括对动物的危害。对一些人来说，它狭隘地侧重于刑法和法律的规定，以控制或防止环境损害，包括：制定和执行这些法律;警务和预防绿色犯罪;起诉和惩罚那些被指控和被判犯有此类罪行的人。对其他人来说，有一个更广泛的解释。绿色犯罪学还可以包括：刑法或其他法律（尚未）禁止的环境危害;环境，生态和物种正义问题（白色2008）;以及避免环境危害。这是一个简短的列表，但清楚地表明，需要加强对环境危害及其监管的跨学科研究，以及与环境保护和保护领域的从业者和政策制定者建立更密切的关系所带来的好处。该系列的主要目的是通过汇集来自法律，社会学，经济学，经济学，社会学，经济学，经济学，社会学，经济学，经济学，社会学，经济学，社会学，经济犯罪学和司法研究，专门侧重于分析和审查绿色犯罪。重要的是，该系列还将包括生态和保护从业者，环境和野生动物执法，以及其他专家。这个核心小组约有15人（我们正在为他们申请资助），他们将会面交流专业和学术知识和专业知识，实用信息和研究计划，这将进一步提高对绿色犯罪的认识，并导致跨学科的研究项目。拟议的系列将有5个半天的研讨会和1个为期2天的小型会议开始在2012年10月。研讨会将于2014年8月之前每学期举行。他们每个人都将有两个特邀演讲者，每个人都是该主题的专家。不可能涵盖上面提到的所有方面，因此本系列将主要关注：1。绿色犯罪学理论与概念; 2.）野生动物和木材贩运; 3.）动物虐待和野生动物犯罪; 4.）危险废物和污染;（5）环境法律法规。小型会议将就每一个主题举行会议，并将专门讨论该系列其他地方没有涉及的绿色犯罪学的那些方面，如方法上的挑战、环境冲突和生物盗版。最后一次会议还将有一次会议专门讨论未来合作研究，出版物和年度会议的计划。该系列将在国际上广泛传播，因为它将通过一个专门的网站进行网播，并利用科罗拉多丹佛大学的绿色犯罪学名单服务、CRIT-GEOG论坛、网络空间和其他渠道进行宣传。

Concerns about an ever-expanding array of global environmental harms and their social and economic impacts have become central to contemporary popular and political discourse. Green Criminology, which began to emerge as an identifiable strand of criminology in the early 1990s and has expanded and developed in recent years into a clear and distinct sub-discipline, can be seen as a particular and significant academic response to these concerns. Yet it remains marginalised in the larger field and those engaged with this highly relevant topic are isolated or in fractured groups. Despite this there are a number of books and articles published in the last few years, and Green Criminology panels are a feature of many criminology conferences. A unique seminar series dedicated to Green Criminology is both timely and important in creating the critical mass for the further development of this important emerging area of scholarship and firmly establishing a Green Crime network focused on these crucial concerns.There are, inevitably, many definitions of Green Criminology - also known as Eco and Environmental Criminology - but broadly speaking it can be defined as a criminological analysis of environmental harm, including harm to animals. For some, it narrowly focuses on Criminal Law and legal regulation to control or prevent environmental harm, including: the making and enforcement of such laws; the policing and prevention of Green Crimes; and the processes of prosecution and punishment of those accused and found guilty of such offences. For others, there is a broader interpretation. Green Criminology can additionally encompass: environmental harms that are not (yet) proscribed by criminal or other laws; issues of environmental, ecological, and species justice (White 2008); and victimisation from environmental harm. This is a brief list, but clearly demonstrates the need for enhanced interdisciplinary examination of environmental harm and its regulation, and the benefit that will come from closer relationships with practitioners and policy makers working in the areas of environmentalism and conservation.The main aim of the series is to realise this benefit by bringing together academics at all career stages from a range of disciplines such as law, sociology, criminology, and justice studies, to exclusively focus on the analysis and examination of Green Crimes. Crucially though, the series will also include ecological and conservation practitioners, environmental and wildlife law enforcement, and other experts. This core group of approximately 15 people (for whom we are applying for funding) will meet to exchange professional and academic knowledge and expertise, practical information, and research plans, which will further the state of Green Crime knowledge and lead to interdisciplinary research projects.The proposed series will have 5 half-day seminars and 1 2-day mini-conference beginning in October 2012. The seminars will take place every term until August 2014. They will each have 2 invited speakers, each experts on the topic. It is not possible to cover all the facets mentioned above, so the series will focus primarily on: 1.) Green Criminology Theories and Concepts; 2.) Wildlife and Timber Trafficking; 3.) Animal Abuse and Wildlife Crime; 4.) Hazardous Waste and Pollution; and 5.) Environmental Law and Regulation. The mini-conference will have sessions on each of these themes and time devoted to those aspects of Green Criminology not covered elsewhere in the series, such as methodological challenges, environmental conflict, and bio-piracy. The final conference will also have a session devoted to plans for future collaborative research, publications, and an annual conference. The series will have wide international dissemination because it will be webcast through a dedicated website and advertised using the Green Criminology list serve at the University of Colorado Denver, the CRIT-GEOG forum, Crimspace, and other avenues.