CJLS 310 - Green Criminology

4 credit(s)
It is becoming increasingly imperative to study environmental harm from a criminological perspective. This course introduces students to green criminology through mainstream, critical, and radical theories. Green criminology’s boundaries are wide-ranging and topics discussed may include climate change, corruption in the oil and gas trades, carceral toxicity, endocrine disruptors, environmental law and environmental injustice, toxic towns, (un)natural disasters, radioactive waste, superfund sites, wildlife crime, food justice and food crimes, animal rights and species justice, illegal logging and dumping, pollution, and environmental justice and animal liberation movements.
Offered: Alternate Years

Core Requirement(s): Counts as Core requirement: Sustainability
Prerequisite(s): CJLS 101.