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Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that Ashgate Publishing will produce a new book series, Green Criminology, and that we will serve as the series editors. We are writing in the hope that you will consider submitting a manuscript to this series. The series is designed to promote scholarly examinations of environmental harms, crime, justice, law, regulation and policy to facilitate the further development of green criminology broadly defined. For instance, books in the Green Criminology series may focus on a variety of issues that have been understudied or not traditionally considered within criminology including, but not limited to, the following: * Forms and scope of environmental harm (e.g., air, water, land, global warming, deforestation, oceans, fisheries, wildlife, genetic engineering, toxic and hazardous waste, crimes against non-human animals or species etc.,). * The enforcement of and nature of environmental regulations, justice, policies and laws (e.g., equity in the enforcement of environmental regulations; the extent of or lack of enforcement; international enforcement of environmental treaties and regulations; variations in enforcement and regulation across cultures; regulatory law making processes or the making of environmental laws, regulations and policy; theories of environmental law enforcement; etc.,) * Corporate, State, State-Corporate and Non-Governmental Actor Green Crimes (e.g., examinations of specific industries within and across nations; examinations of green state-corporate crimes within a region, or the history of green state-corporate crimes within a country; forms of corporate, state, state- corporate and NGO behaviors that can be considered green crimes, etc). * Theoretical analyses of green criminological assumptions and approaches (e.g., defining green criminology and its scope; describing various or specific theoretical approaches as the basis for green criminology; typologies of green criminology; ethical, moral, philosophical and scientific issues related to the development of green criminology, etc., ). * The effect of environmental toxins on crime (e.g., the development of “green behaviorism”; the geography of environmental toxins and crime; the effects of specific environmental toxins on crime and aggression, etc.). We anticipate that the series will produce between three and twelve books per year and encourage submissions that are theoretical, empirical (quantitative or qualitative), or a combination of these approaches. We are also interested in works that develop class, race, gender and cross-cultural approaches to the study of green criminology. As part of this series, Ashgate has agreed to host a series web-page to promote green criminological research. At a minimum, authors will be able to post links to thisweb-page to direct interested parties to relevant web-sites, documents and data such as data the author has used and wished to share with other researchers. We believe that this series provides a tremendous opportunity to expand research in green criminology and to build the scholarly basis and practical applications of this approach further. We hope you will join us in this venture by contributing to this important series. Queries and proposals for this series may be directed to: Michael J. Lynch Department of Criminology College of Behavioral and Community Sciences SOC107 University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 33620-8100 813-974-8148 [email protected] Paul B. Stretesky School of Public Affairs University of Colorado - Denver PO Box 173364 Campus Box 142 Denver, Colorado 80217-3364 303-315-2281 [email protected] Eric Levy, Commissioning Editor, Law and Legal Studies Ashgate Publishing Company [email protected] Paul B. Stretesky Associate Professor School of Public Affairs University of Colorado Denver Office: 303.315.2281 Fax:303.315.2229
