GREEN CRIME uses true crime stories and social science to redefine our relationship with the planet and each other. It is a fresh, fascinating and rigorously scientific book that helps us to understand some of the biggest dangers of our time. Dr Julia Shaw asks how, why and who commits these crimes so that we might better protect the planet.

Green Crime uses true crime stories and social science to fundamentally redefine our relationship with the planet and each other. It is a fresh, fascinating and rigorously scientific book that helps us to understand some of the biggest dangers of our time. Rooted in her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Dr Shaw plunges the reader into the world of green criminology, applying insights from eco-psychology and environmental law to help disentangle why and how environmental crimes are being committed. This book reframes and personalises issues that are often so vast that they cannot be comprehended. Each chapter follows a main criminal case to illustrate a different facet of how, and why, we are destroying the planet and justifying atrocities against humans along the way. For each case she asks: Who are the people behind environmental destruction and death? What are their, and our, justifications? Are these actions crimes? If not, should they be? What legal loopholes are they currently exploiting? And most importantly, how do we disarm the threats to our future?

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Dr Julia Shaw

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Traffickers. Hit men. Outlaws. Thieves . . .
Our planet is a crime scene - but can we catch the killers?

Enter a world where people are murdered, ecosystems are destroyed, organised criminals terrorise communities and corporate gangsters operate outside the law. And, closely following their every move, are teams of secret agents, vigilantes and scientists who are fighting for our planet's future.

Using insider sources and her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Julia Shaw takes us deep into some of the worst environmental crimes of our time. She reconstructs the minds of the perpetrators in cases like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Dieselgate emissions scandal and the Shuidong wildlife crime syndicate. From the Amazon forest to South African gold mines, she follows the impact of green crimes right to our doorsteps and meticulously profiles the work of the heroes bringing these criminals to justice.

Shaw asks: how do the Earth's killers think? What makes their crimes so deadly? And how can we stop them from stealing our future?

Green Crime is the most far-reaching murder mystery ever told.