Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes by Ronald C. Kramer PAPERBACK 9781978805583

Carbon Criminals, Climate CrimesAuthor(s): Ronald C. Kramer, Rob White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978805583, 978-1978805583\nSynopsis\n2020Choice Outstanding Academic Title\n Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel industry, the [url] government, and the international political community did, or failed to do, in relation to global warming. Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes integrates research and theory from a wide variety of disciplines, to analyze four specific state-corporate climate crimes: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omissio.