Significance

What is the significance of green criminology in pushing boundaries?

Critical crim pushed the boundaries of criminology:

• States that we won't just look at crimes, but also harms • •

• Stated that we will stop focussing on crimes of the less powerful, but rather focus on the crimes of the powerful

• Stated that we're moving from harms caused by individuals to harms caused by particular structures, states, corporations

Green crim further expanded these advances from critical crim:

• Green crim introduced practices that are legal but harmful e.g. cement industry

• Green crim states that victims are not exclusively human. Recognised non-human victims e.g. animals, ecosystems, mountains, waster systems, the ocean

Green criminology continues to expand these boundaries:

• There are breakaway branches in green crim e.g. ocean wildlife criminology, astro criminology

What is the significance of the problems green criminology engages with?

Green crim engages with the biggest threat of our time:

• Deals with individual, community, national, international affects and harms - zooms in and out, which is very helpful.

Is green criminology interdisciplinary?

Interdisciplinary:

• Law; biology; philosophy; anthropology; sociology; etc.

• Deeply engages with the critique of capitalism, commodification, consumption, inequalities.

What is the significance of green criminology questioning our ontological anchors?

Green crim questions our ontological (being right) anchors:

• Who are we?

• Who matters?

• What is our social circle?

• What are our responsibilities?

• What do we want?

• Can we have better futures?

This leads to a deeply uncomfortable understanding of how we are harming the environment as individuals, but also the power of structures and the more powerful to shape what we do as individuals and what damage results from it.