For over 30 years, green criminology has drawn attention to a variety of environmental crimes, harms and victimizations related to humans and non-humans alike. Environmental crimes encompass broad, complex and multivariate harms, many of which largely go unnoticed and unpunished, and require multimethod and indepth research. Through popular social science research methodologies, green criminologists have addressed pressing questions on the nature and impact of, and responses to local, regional and global environmental harms.
- Date
- Wednesday 6 Sep 2023, 09:30 - 15:15
- Type
- Symposium
- Room
- University of Florence, more information to come
Since 2012, green criminologists from around the world have been organizing a (bi)yearly seminar that focuses on different aspects of environmental crime, with the aim of pushing green criminological scholarship further by bridging (sub)disciplinary boundaries, but also by bringing together junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners to learn from each other. This year, research methodologies used within green criminology are placed under the spotlight. The seminar aims to highlight what green criminologists bring to the table and to provide a platform to exchange stories on overcoming the ethical and other challenges of doing research on environmental crime, harm and governance. This includes considering how to engage in research on various types of environmental crimes, with harder to reach offenders and victims, and with the use of obtrusive and unobtrusive methodologies. Moreover, we explore how epistemological debates and interdisciplinary dialogues inform green criminology research.
The event aims to foster an open and honest discussion on existing methodological successes and challenges in green criminology, to strengthen our field of research. In this sense, presentations will include works in progress and exploratory questions on methodological issues that open up the debate. The programme aims to achieve balance in terms of researcher gender and experience, representing scholars from the Global North and the Global South, working on wildlife but also on other environmental crimes, and engaged with quantitative, qualitative and mixed method research.
The seminar is planned prior to the start of the European Society of Criminology conference (this year in Florence, Italy) in order for scholars to be able to attend both events without extra travel expenses and carbon footprint.
This year’s organizers are Jenny Maher (University of South Wales, UK), Lieselot Bisschop (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Rita Faria (University of Porto), Valeria Vegh Weis (Buenos Aires University, National Quilmes University, Universität Konstanz Zukunftskolleg) and Daan van Uhm (Utrecht University).
Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory due to limited availability. We thank the following sponsors, who allowed us to host this seminar on Environmental Crime & Research as a free event: University of South Wales, Erasmus University Rotterdam, ……
The conference will not be recorded nor live streamed.
9.30-9.45 Introduction by Lieselot Bisschop & brief Green Criminology Groups updates
9.45-11.00 Keynote 1 & 2:
- David Rodriguez Goyes (University of Oslo, Norway) - “Decolonial research and the (dis)advantages of peer methodology”
- Tanya Wyatt (Programme Officer, Crimes that affect the environment, UNODC) - “The methodology for UNODC’s first-ever Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment”
11.00-11.15 Break
11.15-12.15 Panel 1 – Experiences with, challenges of & ethics of using obtrusive methods: high risk research, ethnography, interviews, visual & sensory methods, representing those who cannot speak, challenges with ethics, data security, researcher/respondent safety
- Daan van Uhm (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
- Jennifer Maher (University of South Wale, United Kingdom)
- Monica Pons-Hernandez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
- Lorenzo Natali (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
- Chair: Gary Potter (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
12.15-13 Lunch
13-14.15 Keynote 3 & 4:
- Marília de Nardin Budó (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil) (title to be announced later)
- Kimberley Barrett (Eastern Michigan University, USA) - An Analysis of Crime in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry: A Quantitative Longitudinal Approach
14.15-15.00 Panel 2 – Experiences with, challenges of & ethics of using unobtrusive methods: official and open data (company records, historic documents, court files, etc.), life course approaches, dogmatic methodology, researching environmental crime in times of war, conflict and transition
- Marieke Kluin (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
- Anna Markovska (Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom)
- Cosimo Sidoti (Transcrime, Italy)
- Chair: Rita Faria (University of Porto, Portugal)
15.00-15.15 Rounding-up the day Avi Brisman (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
