Green Criminology and (Constructions of) Environmental Crime and Harm: A Review Essay

That green criminology is a vibrant area of scholarship and continues to extend, deepen, and refine its analysis of contemporary and emerging environmental issues, is once more demonstrated in two recent contributions to the field: Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide, by Avi Brisman and Nigel South, and Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and emerging issue, an edited collection by the latter two scholars and Rob White.The first book integrates explicit attention for the cultural into green criminological analysis and as such adds greatly to the analytical and theoretical depth of the field.With an opening passage that draws attention to our current day climate, energy, and environmental crises through the storylines of animation films Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, Brisman and South immediately pull the reader into the heart of the argument advanced in Green Cultural Criminology: for a thorough understanding of the nature and persistence of environmental harm and crime in late modern consumerist society, it is necessary to connect the dots between contemporary political, economic, and cultural forces and processes; representations of environment and 'nature'; and constructions of environmental crime and harm.In turn, the edited collection Environmental Crime and Social Conflict bundles a variety of works that from diverse geographical, analytical, theoretical, and substantive foci interrogate the links between environment and conflict.The editors thereby set themselves three aims: (1) provide a baseline resource for criminologists &