Matthew Hall's research while affiliated with University of Lincoln and other places

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A considerable body of academic research has emerged in the last decade identifying many environmental consequences of unconventional hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’ or ‘UHF’) in the U.K. (for example, on climate change, air pollution, wastewater disposal and water contamination). However, there is much less research on the economic implications o...
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This chapter examines the significant changes to the commissioning of local victim support services in England and Wales. The year 2012 saw one of the most significant changes to the way in which police forces in England and Wales are managed. For the first time, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) were elected and, amongst other duties, they bec...
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This paper will focus on how support services for victims of crime have developed in England and Wales since the advent of the 2010 coalition government of the United Kingdom. In particular, the discussion will centre around the development of a framework of locally commissioned victim service providers effectively replacing a previous model of cen...
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Arguing from a cultural victimological perspective, this article makes a case for the wider utilization of restorative justice and mediation-based approaches as a means of providing alternative or parallel justice mechanisms for both human and nonhuman victims of environmental crimes and broader environmental harms. Traditional criminal justice mec...
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Le présent article se penche sur une question de plus en plus importante, soit la réponse des mécanismes de justice formels aux victimes (humaines) des crimes environnementaux. On comprend désormais mieux les impacts des activités polluantes (pratiquées généralement par des personnes morales) sur les individus et les collectivités du monde entier....
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In recent years, growing concern has been voiced in the environmental justice literature regarding the ability of criminal justice mechanisms to adequately address environmental harms, especially when such harms are perpetrated by large corporations. Commentators argue that criminal justice processes are often ill-suited to the particular features...
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This paper examines how law and legal analysis fit within the broader green criminological project. By demonstrating how legal analysis in various forms can cast significant light on key green criminological questions, the paper seeks to address the concern that green criminology-with its preponderance of deep green viewpoints and focus on social h...

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... The Coalition (Conservative/Liberal Democrat 2010-2015) governments review of victim services in 2011-2013 to make services more accountable and better value for money ushered in these new commissioned services and tender rules. The over-riding message from central government was clear: services for victims should be economically competitive and, in many instances, decided locally (Hall 2018). The overall impact of local commissioning according to the same author represents a significant Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. ...
... This green and cultural approach to environmental victimization emphasizes "the needs of victims to adequately map their experiences, which for them develop over time"(Hall, 2017) as a starting point to new forms of reparation of environmental harm(Natali & Hall, 2021).Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. Rights reserved. ...
... Por último, si descendemos al nivel de las operaciones jurídicas en los sistemas de justicia, al estudiar el daño ambiental, lo habitual es centrarse en la eficiencia del proceso en cada sistema o en los efectos disuasorios de la norma sobre los sujetos que contaminan. Sin embargo, siguiendo lo señalado por Hall (2017), en numerosas ocasiones no se ha considerado la visión de la víctima respecto a qué entiende en cuanto a la plasmación de uno de los aspectos de justicia ambiental, esto es, qué entiende por compensación y cómo se le debe facilitar la misma. En este sentido, en general, se entiende por compensación el dinero pagado a las víctimas por delitos o daños medio ambientales por el Estado con fondos públicos; mientras que la restitución es consecuencia de las acciones llevadas a cabo por los individuos o las empresas, pudiendo ser de carácter administrativa o penal. ...
... Indeed, a central and quite unresolved issue for nonspeciesist and green criminology is how some harms to animals, including cruelty, are defined as both abusive and criminal, others as abusive but not criminal, and still others as neither abusive nor criminal (Beirne 1999;Hall 2014;Maher 2021). Yet even the most informative histories of this unfolding terrain imply that the criminalization of animal cruelty is driven by a logic of benign inevitability (e.g., Arkow 2021; Favre and Tsang 1993;pace Bargheer 2006;Gruen and Marceau 2022). ...