Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes

Ronald C. Kramer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0559-0 (ISBN)

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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.

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel industry, the U.S. government, and the international political community did, or failed to do, in relation to global warming. Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes integrates research and theory from a wide variety of disciplines, to analyze four specific state-corporate climate crimes: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission (failure) related to the mitigation of these emissions; socially organized climate change denial; and climate crimes of empire, which include militaristic forms of adaptation to climate disruption. The final chapter reviews policies that could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to a warming world, and achieve climate justice.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.05.2020
Vorwort	Rob White
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	29 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-0559-4 / 1978805594
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0559-0 / 9781978805590
Zustand	Neuware