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In the twenty-first century, environmental harm is an ever-present reality of our globalised world. Over the last 20 years, criminologists have made great strides in their understanding of how different institutions in society, and criminal justice systems in particular, respond (or fail to respond) to the harm imposed on ecosystems and their human and non-human components. Such research has crystallised into the rapidly evolving field of green criminology.
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Hall, M., Nurse, A., Potter, G.R., Wyatt, T. (2016). The Geography of Environmental Crime. In: Potter, G., Nurse, A., Hall, M. (eds) The Geography of Environmental Crime. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53843-7_1
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