Wildlife and Green Criminology: Deconstructing Core Concepts

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This collection of papers addresses the often unchallenged or under-explored aspects of core concepts in wildlife and green crime. We investigate in more depth how wildlife has been theorized as well as how wildlife is socially constructed. This links to further analysis of how harm to wildlife and the environment is theorized and defined. Overall, we address what might a deconstruction and reformulation of these core concepts mean for the field of green criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area V. Types of Offending / 17. Environmental Crime

Individual Presentations

• How Wild is the Wildlife in Green Criminology? - Piers Beirne, University of Southern Maine

• The Social Construction of the Value of Wildlife - Daan van Uhm, Utrecht University

• Green Constructions of Victimhood and Harm - Tanya Wyatt, Northumbria University

Chair

• Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University