Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Workshop
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.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate definitions, understandings and theories relating to “Eco-global”, "green" or "environmental" crime (aim 1, 2)
2.
Explore the nature of “Eco-global”, "green" or "environmental" crime, its victims and perpetrators and its environmental, social and economic costs (aim 1, 2, 3)
3.
Identify and critically assess legal and regulatory strategies at a range of scales and evaluate competing arguments regarding legal and regulatory reform (aim 2, 3)
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.
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.
Assessments
Presentation
Essay