CJ 340 Environmental Crime and Justice
This specialized. advanced course overviews a key area of contemporary criminology, central to public debates about economic growth, inequality & diversity, and environmental sustainability. The course introduces students to the interdisciplinary nature of environmental crime, the environmental laws and regulations created to control it, and the rise of the environmental justice movement. The course also exposes students to (1) the historical and contemporary scope & rate of various environmental crimes, (2) the environmental policy process and enforcement case history, and (3) special topics like human exposure to industrial pollution, climate change, and the unequal distribution of environmental crime and harm by region, occupation, race/ethnicity, gender and class.