Nigel South

University of Essex · Department of Sociology

Tom Davies and Nigel South note that despite the growth of gang scholarship in the twenty-first century, empirical research on the policing response in the UK is surprisingly sparse. Their chapter aims to help fill this knowledge gap, focusing on London and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to present critical insights regarding the processes a...

This chapter discusses the potential usefulness of a visual and sensory methodology for investigating the social perception of environmental crime and harm. Given the scarcity of tools with which to approach these dynamic and elusive phenomena, we focus first on the theoretical and methodological overlaps between green, cultural, visual, and sensor...

Worldwide, medical doctors and lawyers cooperate in health justice projects. These professionals pursue the ideal that, one day, every individual on Earth will be equally protected from the hazards that impair health. The main hindrances to health justice are discrimination, poverty and segregation, but we know that beyond concrete, quantifiable ba...

Worldwide, medical doctors and lawyers cooperate in health justice projects. These professionals pursue the ideal that, one day, every individual on Earth will be equally protected from the hazards that impair health. The main hindrances to health justice are discrimination, poverty and segregation, but we know that beyond concrete, quantifiable ba...

Bunkerization, a term often associated with military fortifications on 20th-century battlefields or the fallout shelters of the Cold War, can now refer to the building, buying and selling of artificial environments designed to provide protective and defensive responses to the ecological, military, and political threats of the Anthropocene. As place...

Environmental pollution is regarded as a major environmental crime in most countries ; Iran is no exception. This study examines water and soil polluting behavior among villagers in Jimabad, Mashhad County-a rural area in the Razavi Khorasan province in the northeastern region of Iran. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data from a random s...

Whilst drug trafficking has been a concern for several decades, wildlife trafficking has only fairly recently garnered international attention. Often media coverage of wildlife trafficking links it to the illegal trade of drugs. This article analyses wildlife and drug trafficking connections of various kinds. The purpose is to reveal the overlaps a...

This exploratory study develops a "southern green cultural criminology" approach to the prevention of environmental harms and crimes. The main aim is to understand differing cultural representations of nature, including wildlife, present within four Colombian Indigenous communities to evaluate whether they encourage environmentally friendly human i...

Background Understanding the views and opinions of ambulance clinicians about counter-terrorism is limited, as are the roles they have in identifying individuals vulnerable to radicalisation. The aim of this survey was to investigate ambulance clinician views and preparedness to identify individuals at risk of radicalisation and whether the current...

Indigenous peoples, their cultures and territories, have been subjected to continuous victimisation, plunder and genocide throughout history-or at least 'history' as created by and written from the North. Since contact with colonisers, these many different peoples have suffered legal and illegal forms of direct, structural and symbolic violence. Me...

Water is an essential element for human life but is being wasted and made unsafe due to anthropogenic activities and pollution. In Bangladesh, both surface water and groundwater are being polluted due to the rapid growth of urbanisation and industrialisation, and most importantly, arsenic contamination and industrial waste are affecting the potabil...

This chapter explores sound and noise in the urban environment. While sounds may be a feature of the urban environment – and often a defining feature – the line between what constitutes ‘sound’ and ‘noise’ is subjective. Who decides, and where/when governance and regulation of ‘sound’ in the name of ‘noise’ control is exercised, is often a reflecti...

Generally, the traditional Indigenous ways of 'knowing and seeing' the natural world lead to more protective behaviours than the dominating economic approach that represents the interests of the global North. Indigenous ways of living and remembering are however, currently threatened with erosion by several global dynamics. While many of the most p...

This paper traces aspects of the development of a 'green' criminology. It starts with personal reflections and then describes the emergence of explicit statements of a green criminological perspective. Initially these statements were independently voiced in different parts of the world but they reflected shared concerns. These works have found unif...

Este artículo, bajo el prisma de la criminología verde y la criminología cultural, analiza diversos aspectos del ruido en los espacios urbanos y subraya la convergencia sensitiva entre fenómenos ruidosos, odoríferos y lumínicos, como parte del enfoque de una criminología sensorial emergente “visual, olfativa y auditiva” y del estudio de los usos y...

This essay adopts an interdisciplinary approach to consider the meaning of “eco-crime” in the aquatic environment and draws on marine science, the study of criminal law and environmental law, and the criminology of environmental harms. It reviews examples of actions and behaviors of concern, such as offences committed by transnational organized cri...

As Kailemia observes, “environmental crimes are an area of increasing concern, not only because of [their] globalized nature” but because these crimes have “impacts beyond the capacity of criminal justice systems of most states to comprehend or address.” How then can criminal justice agencies, particularly in the global south, respond to national a...

The unsustainable and exploitative use of scarce global resources of freshwater continues to create conflict and human dislocation on a grand scale. Instead of witnessing nation-states adopting more equitable and efficient conservation strategies, powerful corporations are permitted to privatise and monopolise diminishing water reservoirs based on...

Visual criminology has established itself as a site of criminological innovation. Its ascendance, though, highlights ways in which the ‘ocularcentrism’ of the social sciences is reproduced in criminology. We respond, arguing for attention to the totality of sensorial modalities. Outlining the possible contours of a criminology concerned with smell,...

RESUMEN En el ámbito de la Criminología, ni el potencial del ruido como causa y efecto de comportamientos desviados, ni su faceta medioambiental, han sido objeto de un análisis equivalente al sufrido por otros fenómenos ambientales. La Criminología verde y el Derecho penal medioambiental son áreas emergentes de reconocida importancia en la denomina...

En el ámbito de la Criminología, ni el potencial del ruido como causa y efecto de comportamientos desviados, ni su faceta medioambiental, han sido objeto de un análisis equivalente al sufrido por otros fenómenos ambientales. La Criminología verde y el Derecho penal medioambiental son áreas emergentes de reconocida importancia en la denominada “edad...

This article reviews some trends in the sociotechnical development of urban spaces and controlled environments. It provides past and present examples of spatial, volumetric and symbolic constructions that have functioned to enclose or divide before describing a new context of markets that promise to provide habitats or settlements offering ‘environ...

The aim of this dual special issue project—simultaneously published in two languages in two distinguished international journals (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and Crítica Penal y Poder) —is to support the goal of Southern criminology to level inequalities in the valuing of criminological knowledge in the Global Nort...

Conservation and development discourses are the two main frameworks in which global debates on how to relate to nature occur. These discourses are considered as opposed; while conservation discourses argue for the maintenance of nature in its pristine state, development discourses seek to justify re-engineering spaces to give place to cities, monoc...

En el prefacio de su libro Epistemologías del sur (2016: viii), de Sousa Santos escribe que 'tres ideas básicas' guiaron la escritura del libro. Primero, un reconocimiento de que 'la comprensión del mundo supera con creces la comprensión occidental del mundo'. Segundo, la proposición de que 'no hay justicia social global'-nosotros agregaríamos que...

RESUMEN Las narrativas de 'conservación' y 'desarrollo' son los dos principales discursos que enmarcan los debates globales sobre cómo el ser humano debe relacionarse con la naturaleza. Estas narrativas son consideradas como discursivamente opuestas: mientras las narrativas de conservación buscan mantener a la naturaleza en su estado original; las...

Iñaki Rivera Universidad de Barcelona En el prefacio de su libro Epistemologías del sur (2016: viii), de Sousa Santos escribe que 'tres ideas básicas' guiaron la escritura del libro. Primero, un reconocimiento de que 'la comprensión del mundo supera con creces la comprensión occidental del mundo'. Segundo, la proposición de que 'no hay justicia soc...

This article explores an issue pertaining to the commodification of nature and related market processes – reviving extinct species. It begins by offering an overview of the aesthetic, economic, scientific and ethical reasons to preserve biological diversity. The article then considers how and why biological diversity is actually being reduced at an...

The focus of criminology on crimes and harms committed by and against humans has broadened over time. Only since the 1990s, however, has the discipline recognized the significance of crimes and harms concerning the environment and nonhuman animals. A variety of approaches and bodies of work now contribute to what can be described as “green criminol...

Continuing injustices and denial of rights of indigenous peoples are part of the long legacy of colonialism. Parallel processes of exploitation and injustice can be identified in relation to non-human species and/or aspects of the natural environment. International law can address some extreme examples of the crimes and harms of colonialism through...

The term ‘Anthropocene’ refers to a proposed new geological epoch characterised by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems. This chapter begins by noting how humans have affected every aspect of our environment—from the far reaches of the atmosphere to ocean bottoms. Next, it considers how criminologists h...

Women’s experiences of crime as both offenders and victims are different to their male counter-parts. They commit less crime, and the crime they commit is generally different to men’s, with less involvement in violent crime, criminal damage or professional crime. Women are much more likely to be victims of sexual and physical assault at the hands o...

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system? In a landscape where women’s involvement in the criminal justice system still tends to be ig...

The biosphere of planet Earth can be described as ‘a seamless continuum’ comprised of the interacting elements of water, soil, air and living organisms. This is the system that sustains and reproduces life and, as Everard (2013: 28) points out, the depth of the interdependence of these constituent parts is ‘exemplified by the water cycle’:

Most countries will impose restrictions on the discharge of pollutants into water and, in particular, will set standards for the quality of drinking water. Of course, whether these restrictions are applied with any rigour and whether these standards are met raise the kind of questions with which this book is concerned. We start here with the issue...

In their proposal for a new paradigm for environmental sociology, Dunlap and Catton (1979) have argued for the necessity of a broader understanding of the interdependence between humans and the biophysical environment of which they are a part. This includes recognition of systems of reciprocity and feedback. Ultimately, ecological processes will im...

‘Environmental security’ has been defined as ‘[t]he current and future availability (determined by the factors—supply, accessibility and management) of life-supporting ecosystem services and goods for human needs and natural process which contribute to poverty alleviation and conflict deterrence’ (Hecker 2011: 12). While other permutations have bee...

The phrase ‘water is the next oil’ is widely used to describe the exorbitant profits produced as a result of its growing commodification (Zabarenko 2009). As McGee (2014) observes, ‘Companies proclaim water the next oil in a rush to turn resources into profit—Mammoth companies are trying to collect water that all life needs and charge for it as the...

As we have described and discussed in the preceding chapters, water issues take shape in a variety of ways. From concerns regarding access and pollution, to drought and flooding as attendant effects of global climate change, to privatization and corporate consolidation of water supplies and the deceptive marketing of bottled water, water is at the...

The television sci-fi drama, ‘The Expanse’, based on the novels written by James S. A. Corey, depicts a future solar system where the dwarf planet ‘Ceres’ provides diminishing sources of fresh water for competing intergalactic colonies. In such worlds, 200 years hence, water has become more than a commodity for monetary exchange: it is now a precio...

This research explores a new methodological path for doing green cultural criminological research via social media. It provides original case-study data and aims to stimulate further empirical and theoretical debate. In particular, the study explores how Twitter users have represented the harms related to an ongoing pipeline project in Italy (refer...

Este libro nació como respuesta a la comprensión crítica de que si bien la criminología verde ha crecido en cuanto a su ámbito de interés y orientación, el campo de la criminología verde (si de hecho se puede hablar de un campo) todavía está restringido en su alcance y potencial de colaboración y discusión, pues es principalmente practicada por est...

The ideologies and technologies of the global North have long necessitated the forced migration, colonization and ecological plunder of the global South for imperial and capital expansionism. In recent decades, the excesses and demands of a global economy dependent upon unrelenting growth and industrialization have created new victims—entire popula...

Noise was probably the first environmental pollutant (apart from human waste) in the Ancient world. Yet today, by comparison with other environmental matters, noise and protection from its effects are often overlooked, except in specialist fields such as architecture or planning. One major reason for this may be that noise does not possess the same...

The important part of the massacre [of indigenous leaders] was that it showed that the State, the Army, one of the traditional political parties, the merchants and the paramilitaries were all involved. It was an alliance between all of them. Ultimately the only difference between the army and the paramilitaries is that they dress differently at nig...

Over the last 25 years, Green Criminology has developed into a fertile area of study that now attracts scholars from around the world with a wide range of research interests and theoretical orientations. It spans the micro to the macro–from work on individual-level environmental harms to business/corporate crimes to state transgressions–and include...

This paper explores food and food crime in the context(s) of the increasingly powerful discourse(s) of security and securitization. Because food has long been tied to conflict, we recognize it as a material need that frequently contributes to or drives conflict. In the post-9/11 world, however, food is taking on new discursive and material roles an...

Although the first published use of the term ‘green criminology’ seems to have been made by Lynch (Green criminology. Aldershot, Hampshire, 1990/2006), elements of the analysis and critique represented by the term were established well before this date. There is much criminological engagement with, and analysis of, environmental crime and harm that...

Cet article propose une introduction generale a la criminologie environnementale et a l’etude du crime environnemental. Il examine l’emergence de cette approche, les concepts cles, les questions empiriques et les enjeux susceptibles d’etre abordes dans les futurs travaux dans ce domaine. L’article s’interesse entre autres a l’ecojustice (relative a...

p>Although there is strong scientific consensus that climate change and environmental degradation are occurring, there is also a significant body of opinion that is sceptical about, or denies the validity of, evidence for this. However it is not solely the nature of differing views about global warming or ecological disaster that is being contested...

This chapter reviews how forms of friend and acquaintance supply that might be considered less than ‘drug dealing proper’ are not new and have existed over many years. It reflects on how, over time, views on these types of supply have developed and evolved in concert with changed and changing drug use and supply landscapes in the UK. In particular...