Crime, Law, Justice and the Trump Administration 3: Regulatory Rollbacks and Environmental Threats

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

During his first term as president, Donald Trump sought to roll back a variety of environmental regulations protecting air, water, soil, as well as stymie efforts by the U.S. government to address climate change. In his second term, Trump now seeks to eliminate all or nearly all regulations aimed at environmental protection, transforming the EPA into an agency whose sole purpose is to increase extraction and production, regardless of the environmental and human costs. This session explores the grave dangers posed by this unprecedented effort to grant license to corporate criminals to threaten human, animal, and other biotic life for the sake of short-term profit.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 79. Critical Perspectives in Criminology

Individual Presentations

• The Return of the Carbon Criminals: Trump’s Climate Crimes 2.0 - Ron Kramer, Western Michigan University

• Trump will Continue Environmental Injustice Tribal Lands: The Case of Uranium Mining - Linda Marie Robyn, Northern Arizona University

• It’s Only Earth, We Have the Stars: Trump, Musk, and Manifest Destiny - Dawn Rothe, Florida Atlantic University; Victoria Collins, University of Kentucky

• Resisting Climate Crimes in the Second Trump Administration - Elizabeth Bradshaw, Central Michigan University

Chair

• Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Critical Criminology and Social Justice