Green Criminology and Environmental Crime

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Green Criminology and Environmental Crime (PSS312)

Applications Open: 01 May 2023

Applications Close: 15 June 2023

Next Available Intake: July 2023

Course Types: Modular Undergraduate Course

Language: English

Duration: 6 months

Fees: $1378 View More Details on Fees

Area of Interest: Business Administration, International Trade, Science and Technology

Schemes: Alumni Continuing Education (ACE)

Funding: To be confirmed

School/Department: School of Humanities & Behavioural Sciences

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Synopsis

PSS312 Green Criminology and Environmental Crime: Green criminology provides for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary engagement with environmental crimes and wider harms to society stemming from these crimes. It incorporates ecological justice, the study of environmental laws and criminality, climate action issues relating to industries, crimes against wildlife and abuses in the animal industry. This course explores the nature of environmental/climate/wildlife crime and challenges in countering it. It will examine the socio/political construction of such crime along with creating awareness about vulnerabilities in regulatory mechanisms meant to counter it. Students will become familiar with contemporary developments in green criminology, key concepts and debates pertaining to environmental/climate/wildlife crime. Such a course prepares students for a career in managing regulatory mechanisms in industries that impact on the environment, climate and wildlife.

Level: 3
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: Every July

Topics

Environmental Degradation, Social Change and Crime
Environmental 'Crime': Conceptions, Limitations and Alternatives
The Corporation and Environmental Harms
The State and the Environment: Crime, Harm and Responsibility
Illegal Waste Dumping
Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and Poaching
Regulatory violations in Farm/Animal Industries
Issues in Climate Change Politics and Industrial Regulations
Responding to Environmental Harm: Policing, Enforcement and Sentencing
Wider Socio-Political Harms and Environmental Extremism
Victim of Environmental Crime and Restitution
Environmental Restoration and Preventive Mechanisms

Learning Outcome

Explain what constitutes crimes relating to industrial safety and the environment (B2)
Analyse the socio/political construction of environmental crime (B4)
Compare different protective mechanisms and safeguards used for countering crimes relating to industrial safety and the environment (B4)
Examine contemporary developments in green criminology, key concepts and debates pertaining to environmental/industrial crime (B4)
Apply strategies to manage regulatory mechanisms in industries that impact on the environment (B3)
Formulate new regulatory mechanisms to handle emerging forms of environmental/industrial crime (B5)