Victims of Environmental Harm: Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law

by Matthew Hall

Overview

This book discusses the intersection of victimology and international environmental law, exploring the role of the state and how the impacts of environmental harm are (often unequally) distributed amongst the world's populations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415677004
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/2013
Series:	Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Matthew Hall obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 2007, having previously graduated from Sheffield’s MA in International Criminology Programme. He is now senior lecturer in Law and Criminal Justice at Sheffield where he teaches many aspects of criminology, as well as criminal law and the law of evidence. He is an editor for the International Review of Victimology.

Table of Contents

1. Victims, Environmental Harm and International Law 2. Identifying and Conceptualising the Victims of Environmental Harm 3. Environmental Victims Across Jurisdictions: Criminal Law and State Responsibility 4. Human Rights, Victim Rights, Environmental Rights? 5. Responding to Environmental Victimisation: Compensation, Restitution and Redress 6. Mapping out a Green Victimology.