Introducing conservation criminology towards interdisciplinary scholarship on environmental crimes and risks

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 124-144

  Gibbs, Carole ^a   Gore, Meredith L ^b   McGarrell, Edmund F ^b   Rivers III, Louie ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conservation criminology; Environmental crime; Environmental risk; Green criminology

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749105163     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: 14643529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azp045     Document Type: Article

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