Introduction to Special Issue of CRIMEANTHROP: Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene
| Autor | Ragnhild Sollund |
| Cargo | Professor Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law University of Oslo (Norway) |
| Páginas | 1-23 |
REVISTA CATALANA DE DRET AMBIENTAL Vol. XII Núm. 1 (2021): 1 - 23
- Editorial / Introducció al Monogràfic -
https://doi.org/10.17345/rcda3112
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE OF CRIMEANTHROP: CRIMINAL
JUSTICE, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND ANIMAL RIGHTS IN THE
ANTHROPOCENE
RAGNHILD SOLLUND
Professor
Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law
University of Oslo (Norway)
ragnhild.sollund@jus.uio.no
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE
This issue of Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, [The Catalan Journal of
Environmental Law] is dedicated to present findings from research carried out as
part of the international research project: Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and
Animal Rights in the Anthropocene [CRIMEANTHROP], which is located at the
University of Oslo, Dept. of Criminology and Sociology of Law. It is fully funded by
the Research Council Norway and runs for four years1. The project includes
research in Norway as the main research location (3 case studies), with supporting
case studies from UK (1 case study), Germany (1 case study) and Spain (1 case
study). Its purpose is to investigate the implementation and law enforcement of two
central wildlife conservation conventions, CITES2 (Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and the Bern convention3 (The
Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats in these
1 FRIPRO, project number 289285.
2 https://cites.org/eng
3 https://www.coe.int/en/web/bern-convention?_sm_au_=iVVtWnJSVsMSFDZ5
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four countries from a cross disciplinary approach. The partners of CRIMEANTHROP
have background in law (Teresa Fajardo del Castillo and David Rodriguez Goyes, in
political science (Christoph Stefes) and in criminology (Ragnhild Sollund, D.R.
Goyes, Martine Synnøve Bergesen Lie and Tanya Wyatt). CRIMEANTHROP is
situated within the ground-breaking, interdisciplinary field of green criminology.
This research field relies on social and natural sciences and philosophical
approaches to assess harms of human impact on the natural world, rather than
focussing only on crimes.4 CRIMEANTHROP contributes to, contextualizes and
investigates the ideals, philosophies and practices related to justice and rights that
are the theoretical core of green criminology. An important goal is to further theorise
and contribute to the positioning of green criminology, through an open grounded
theory approach.5
Green criminology incorporates a central concern for animal welfare and harms and
crimes against the environment. Central perspectives in this approach are;
Speciesism; the central aspect of the Anthropocene, which is an analytical tool to
discuss the human-wildlife relationship and to what extent wildlife should be
“managed”;6 Ecological citizenship and ecological justice; concepts which
acknowledge that humans are merely one component of complex ecosystems that
should have rights to be preserved for their own sake; Animal rights and species
justice; concepts that identify environmental harm in relation to the place of
nonhuman animals within environments and their intrinsic right to not suffer abuse,
4 See e.g. BEIRNE, Piers. For a nonspeciesist criminology: Animal abuse as an object of study.
Criminology, 1999 37(1), 117–148, BEIRNE, Piers., & SOUTH, Nigel. Approaching green
criminology. In P. Beirne & N. South (Eds.), Issues in green criminology: Confronting harms against
environments, humanity, and other animals (pp. xiii–xxii). 2007. Cullompton, UK: Willan Publishing,
BENTON, Ted. Rights and justice on a shared planet: More rights or new relations. Theoretical
Criminology, 1998. 2(2), 149–175, HALSEY, Mark; WHITE, Rob. Crime, ecophilosophy and
environmental harm. Theoretical criminology, 1998, 2.3: 345-371, SOLLUND, Ragnhild (ed.). Green
harms and crimes: Critical criminology in a changing world. Springer, 2015, WHITE,
Rob. Environmental harm: An eco-justice perspective. Policy Press, 2013.
5 STRAUSS, Anselm., & CORBIN, Juliet. (1994). Grounded theory methodology. Handbook of
qualitative research, 17, 273-285.
6 See e.g. NIBERT, David. Animal rights/human rights: Entanglements of oppression and liberation.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002, REGAN, Tom. (2010). The case for animal rights. Berkeley:
University of California Press, SINGER, P. (1995). Animal liberation. New York: Random House.
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