Environmental victimisation encompasses a range of perspectives on how environmental damage can cause harms to humans, animals, and ecosystems. It incorporates both direct and indirect harms that can include the exploitation of animals and non-human nature whether deliberate or accidental and also whether legal or illegal. Green criminological scholarship has consistently challenged traditional ideas of victimhood by recognising and shining a light on a wide range of environmental harms and examining the vast scope of environmental harms and victimisation that include physical, social, economic, and intergenerational impacts.
The BSC Green Criminology Research Network is holding a one day in-person event on environmental harm and victimisation on Tuesday 28th October. This event allows for discussion on contemporary issues in environmental harm and victimisation and to consider further opportunities for developing the network’s work in this area. Our speakers include:
Professor Stacy Banwell, University of Greenwich
Life on Earth is in crisis: An intersectional analysis of the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and atrocity crimes
Dr Emiline Smith, University of Glasgow
Exploiting the Blue: Conceptualising Harms Against Ocean Ecosystems
Christina Warner, Barrister
Ruby’s Law, Protecting Pets in Family Law
The conference is kindly hosted by the University of Portsmouth. It is free to attend and we ask those planning to attend to register via our Eventbrite page. Please note that this is an in-person event.
For further information or in the event of any queries contact:
Jac Reed, Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Forensic Studies, University of Portsmouth, jac.reed@port.ac.uk
Professor Angus Nurse, Green Criminology Research Network Chair – angus.nurse@aru.ac.uk