Environmental Crime in Latin America

David Rodríguez Goyes is a PhD candidate at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, at the University of Oslo, Norway, and a lecturer at the Antonio Nariño University, Colombia.

Hanneke Mol is a Research Fellow in Environmental Justice at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Avi Brisman is Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Nigel South is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the "theft of nature" and the "poisoning of the land" in Latin America through and from processes of agro-industry expansion, biopiracy, legal and illegal trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining. 
An interdisciplinary study, this collection draws on research from a wide range of international experts on not only green criminology, but also social justice, political ecology and sociology. An engaging and thought-provoking work, this book will be an essential text for anyone interested in current issues in environmental crime.

Addresses timely issues such as: mining, pollution, trafficking and biodiversity

1. Introduction.- PART I. SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE THEFT OF NATURE.- 2. The Environmental Damages and Liabilities of Collective Suicide.- 3. The Archipelago of Chiloé and the Uncertain Contours of its Future.- 4. Understanding Environmental Harm and Justice Claims in the Global South.- 5. Mining in Colombia.- PART II. THE TAKE OVER OF LAND AND THE PLUNDERING OF ITS PRODUCTS.- 6. Global Pollution, Multinational Oil Companies and State Power.- 7. A Decade of Social and Environmental Mobilization Against Mega-Mining in Chubut, Argentinian Patagonia.- 8. Agro-Industry Expansion through 'Strategic Alliances'.- 9. The Injustices of Policing, Law and Multinational Monopolisation in the Privatisation of Natural Diversity.- PART III. THE SUBJUGATION OF NON-HUMAN ANIMALS.- 10. The Use and Abuse of Animals in Wildlife Trafficking in Colombia.-  11. Wildlife Trafficking in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.- <12. Biomedical Research vs. Biodiversity Conservation in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon