Product Description: Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions...read more

Product Description: Is the American criminal justice system guilty of bias in its treatment of racial and ethnic minorities? In this anthology, noted criminologists provide a balanced assessment of the research evidence on whether the American criminal justice system dispenses unfair treatment to members of racial and ethnic minorities...read more

Product Description: The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inaccurate beliefs about controlling crime, and the government's criminalizing of the poor...read more