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Environmental victimology refers to the study of the social processes and institutional responses pertaining to victims of environmental crime. It is a new area of criminological concern (Hall 2013), and it can be intellectually located as a subset of ‘green criminology’, itself a relatively new development (White and Heckenberg 2014). This chapter provides a broad overview of environmental victimology and, in particular, how research in this area is engaging with both human and nonhuman environmental victims.
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White, R. (2015). Environmental Victimology and Ecological Justice. In: Wilson, D., Ross, S. (eds) Crime, Victims and Policy. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383938_3
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