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Justice Studies

Learning Methods

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Online
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Module Offerings

6104CRIM-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To explore the nature and recognise and significance of "green" or "environmental" crime and harm, and relate these to social movements and inequalities. 2. To critically evaluate the dominant approaches to conceptualising and theorising "green" or "environmental" crime and harm. 3. To critically evaluate the role of key actors in preventing and responding to "green" or "environmental" crime and harm.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:1. Defining “Eco-global”, "green" or "environmental" crime and harm 2. Identifying the perpetrators and victims of environmental crime and harm 3. Environmental justice; social/gender and ethnic inequality and environmental crime and harm 4. Trans-national/“Eco-global”, perspectives on environmental crime 5. Class, corporations and organized crime in environmental crime and harm 6. Prosecuting and limitations on prosecution of environmental crime 7. Policing and environmental law enforcement 8. Regulation, politics and social power
Module Overview:
This module encourages you to critically reflect on the nature and extent of "green" or "environmental" crime and harm, addressing problems of definition, measurement and causation, and relating this to social and philosophical movements and approaches. It addresses the role of the intergovernmental agreement, the state and the criminal justice system in prevention and regulation of "green" or "environmental" crime and harm, and considers the nature and effectiveness of legal, judicial and regulatory approaches.
Additional Information:This module encourages students to critically reflect on the nature and extent of "green" or "environmental" crime and harm, addressing problems of definition, measurement and causation, and relating this to social and philosophical movements and approaches. It addresses the role of the intergovernmental agreement, the state and the criminal justice system in prevention and regulation of "green" or "environmental" crime and harm, and considers the nature and effectiveness of legal, judicial and regulatory approaches.

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