Kumar Shree Shyam, Chanakya National Law University, Patna
ABSTRACT
An inter- and multi-disciplinary approach to environmental offences and broader environmental harms is made possible by green criminology. Environmental harms, ecological justice, and the study of environmental laws and criminality, which encompasses crimes against the environment and non-human nature, are all addressed by green criminology, which adopts a broad "green" perspective. There is a claim that justice systems need to take into account more than just anthropocentric notions of criminal justice. They should also take into account how justice systems can provide protection and redress for the environment and other species, according to the ecological justice and species justice perspectives of green criminology. Theoretical questions about whether and how justice systems address crimes against animals and the environment have thus received particular attention from green criminological scholarship, which has also started to conceptualize policy angles that can offer modern ecological justice in addition to traditional criminal justice. Green criminology examines state failures in environmental protection, corporate wrongdoing, and environmentally damaging business practices, expanding on the individual offenders that are the primary emphasis of mainstream criminology. The question of whether environmental harm rather than environmental crime should be the focus of green criminology, as well as whether green "crimes" should be seen as the focus of mainstream criminal justice and dealt with by core criminal justice agencies like the police, or whether they should be considered to be beyond the mainstream, are at the center of this field's debate.
