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Introduction: Critical Green Criminology — An Agenda for Change

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Green Harms and Crimes

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This book is the outcome of the conference of the European Group (EG) for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, which was hosted by the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway, in September 2013. The event marked the 40th anniversary of this important criminology group, which for over four decades has influenced European and international criminology, and not the least what is usually referred to as ‘critical criminology’ — a field of criminology which arose as a criticism of the ways in which (mainstream, positivist North American) criminology was a vehicle and support to the judicial system and punishment apparatus. This is also part of the history of the Institute for Criminology and Sociology of Law in Oslo, which was first established as the Institute of Criminology and Penal Law 60 years ago.

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Sollund, R.A. (2015). Introduction: Critical Green Criminology — An Agenda for Change. In: Sollund, R.A. (eds) Green Harms and Crimes. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456267_1

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