Green Criminology and its Importance in the 21st Century

Green Criminology
and why did it gain
importance in the 21st
Century
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Environmental damage is an ever-present consequence in our globalised society in the
twenty-first century. Over the past two decades, criminologists also made real progress in
conceptual analysis as to how various entities in society, particularly criminal justice systems,
react – or failure to respond – to the damage inflicted on environments and certain human and
non-human elements, standing closely a variety of several other fields from either the natural and
social sciences (Linacre, 2021). Green criminology, an increasingly growing field, is the product
of such research. In the 1990s, the word "green criminology" was coined to describe a critical
and long-term approach to the study of environmental crime. The aim of this essay is to explain
Green Criminology and why it has become so important in the twenty-first century.
MAIN BODY
Green criminal justice is a field of criminology that is concerned with the investigation of all
types of environmental harms and violations in general, as well as the research of environmental
legislation and regulation, industrial environmental crimes, and protection of the environment
out of a criminological viewpoint. The planet we live in is undergoing a rapid societal, economic,
political, and environmental transformation that is almost unfathomable. Both of these
developments have resulted in increased demand for goods and services that the ordinary market
and business services will no longer meet, forcing the illegal economy to step in (Carcach, 2019).
Furthermore, expanded mobility has boosted commerce, tourism, science and cultural
collaboration, and much more. Borders are getting paler and less noticeable. All has sped up to
previously unheard-of levels. However, all of this development has resulted in unparalleled
levels of war, persecution, and crime.
Green criminology has grown in popularity over time, thanks to organizations like the
International Green Criminology Working Group. Green criminology, that contribute to the
environmental threats and offenses, is also intersecting with traditional criminal justice and
criminal law, with sociologists researching the 'greening' of criminology norms and processes in
an attempt to become even more good for the environment, as well as the participation of people
in the criminal justice process (Wang, 2018). While green criminology had first been introduced
as a political economic conceptualizations of environmental injury, criminality, regulation, and
justice, there seem to be many varieties of green criminology to consider.