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crim p 322-384
MMIWG, Critiques Fem. Crim., Some. Old, Some. Borrowed, Culture and Late Modern
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Highway of Tears | Prince Rupert to Prince George; at least 30 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing since 1974 |
| exclusive focus | on white and cisgender women extended to men, animals, racialised, transgender or other marginalised women |
| Feminism is not about bringing men down, | but about raising women up |
| feminist theories of criminology emphasize | the role of patriarchy, inequality, and gender in all explanations of crime and criminality. |
| a key feature of cultural criminology | propensity to revisit and rework older ideas and breathe new life into the study of crime and crime control |
| Cultural criminology analyses | how popular culture reflects crime back to us in ways that are enjoyable and highly profitable |
| new deviance theory | included subcultural theory and labelling theory |
| new deviance theory granted | “criminal and deviant behaviour cultural meaning” |
| techniques of neutralisation | are the “cultural work necessary to commit crimes” |
| deviant and the dominant culture | both value aggression, violence and toughness |
| criminal violence is | “widely commodified, consumed and celebrated” |
| society’s key institutions appear designed | to produce well-socialised—and bored—citizens: schools, mental hospitals, prisons |
| reality TV police programs are | far from reality and depict policing from the point of view of law enforcement |
| cultural criminology examines | the way violence reflects power relations in society. |
| Green Criminology | is non-speciesist, and zemiological, Moves beyond laws,focuses on injustices beyond laws |
| zemiological approach | focuses on social harms, which cause significant harm to individuals or society, even if they are not technically illegal |
| Ag-gag legislation | criminalises undercover investigations of animal agriculture operations, limits whistleblowing, and prohibits the recording of animal agriculture activities |
| environmental criminology | a sub-field of criminology focusing on the relationship between crime and space and place or the geography of crime and criminal behaviour |
| Ecophilosophy | study of the essence and nature of the socio-natural environment, its quantitative and qualitative properties and the causal dependence between the anthroposphere and biosphere |
| anthroposphere | the part of the Earth system that is made or modified by humans |
| anthropocentrism | regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence, especially as opposed to God or animals. |
| ecocentrism | values the entire ecosystem and its interconnectedness over individual species or human interests |
| biocentrism | all living things are equal in value and have the same right to live, regardless of their species or importance to humans |
| The three Ecophilosophies | anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism |
| green victimology | social processes and institutional responses pertaining to victims of environmental crime (2.8 million people die as a result of their job (“UN”, 2019) |
| greenwashing | the portrayal of a product or service as environmentally friendly and not harmful |
| Green criminology's three distinct justice perspectives | the environmental, the species, and the ecological justice perspective. |
| environmental justice perspective | The disproportionate and unequal impact of environmental harms |
| environmental racism | Fifty-six percent of people living in the vicinity of toxic waste sites are people of colour |
| species justice perspective | looks at the obligations and duties owed to non-human animals from perspectives such as a utilitarian moral calculus |
| The Ecological Justice Perspective | worthy of protection in their own right and not just as resources to be exploited or used instrumentally |