Green criminology is a rapidly developing field, and this book offers an essential introduction to this area. It provides focused discussions of current and cutting edge issues that will influence the emergence of a coherent perspective on green issues, and will be essential reading not only for students taking courses in colleges and universities but also for activists in the environmental and animal rights movements.

Piers Beirne is Professor of Criminology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine.

Nigel South is Pro Vice Chancellor of the Department of Sociology at Essex University. His recent books include Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, with E. Carrabine, P. Iganski, M. Lee and K. Plummer (Routledge, 2004), Drug Use and Cultural Contexts - Beyond the West, with R. Coomber (Free Association Books, 2004), Crime in Modern Britain, with E. Carrabine, P. Cox and M. Lee (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Introduction: Approaching green criminology Part 1: Introduction to Green Criminology 1. Ecology, community and justice: The meaning of green 2. Green criminology and the pursuit of social and ecological justice 3. Animal rights, animal abuse and green criminology Part 2: Animal Rights and Animal Abuse 4. Labelling animals. Non-speciesist criminology and techniques to identify other animals 5. Vivisection: The case for abolition 6. Debating 'animal rights' on-line: The movementcountermovement dialectic Part 3: Ecological Systems and Environmental Harms 7. At risk: Climate change and its bearing on women's vulnerability to male violence 8. Crime, regulation and radioactive waste in the United Kingdom 9. Food crime 10. The 'corporate colonisation of nature': Bio-prospecting, bio-piracy and the development of green criminology 11. Green criminology in the United States 12. Eco-crime and formal and informal law-enforcement in South Africa