Book Review: Nigel South and Piers Beirne (eds) Green Criminology Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 586 pp. £145 (hbk). ISBN 0754625923. Piers Beirne and Nigel South (eds) Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals Uffculmea: Willan, 2007. 317 pp. £23.99 (pbk), £55 (hbk). ISBN—13: 9781843922209
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Book ReviewNigel South and Piers Beirne (eds) Green Criminology Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 586 pp. £145 (hbk). ISBN 0754625923. Piers Beirne and Nigel South (eds) Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals Uffculmea: Willan, 2007. 317 pp. £23.99 (pbk), £55 (hbk). ISBN—13: 9781843922209 SAGE Publications, Inc.2009DOI: 10.1177/13624806090130020508 Frank Pearce Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada The editors of Green Criminology argue that there is an emerging `critical envi- ronmental criminology'' which draws upon and critiques the pre-existing corpus of criminological work, but which is also innovative, not least because of its artic- ulation with green trends in other disciplines and because it can connect `policy, politics and practice', particularly in the context of recent `changes in global and national socio-economic and political systems' (South and Beirne, p. xxv). In the 28 articles reprinted in Green Criminology and the 12 articles written specially for Issues in Green Criminology, we find in-depth explorations of how we organ- ize our relationships to each other, to other species and to localized eco-systems and the biosphere as a whole. The main focus is on the economy and the State and particularly on the role the legal system plays in regulating,