Resource Wealth, Power, Crime, and Conflict

Critical Criminological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 57-71

  Brisman, Avi ^a   South, Nigel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Compassion Fatigue; Environmental Crime; Green Criminology; Resource Curse; Restorative Justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85146057247     PISSN: 27310604     EISSN: 27310612     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137273994_4     Document Type: Chapter

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