Content (Syllabus outline)
Introduction to environmental crime
o The definition of environmental crime
o The forms of environmental crime
Introduction to green criminology
o Green criminology - the study of environmental crime
o The development of green criminology throughout history (case of Slovenia)
Responding to threats against the environment and environmental protection policy
o Criminal justice and security aspects of environmental crime (national security aspect, legal aspect, criminal investigation aspect, psychological aspect, crime-prevention aspect).
Learning and teaching methods
- The course will consist of lectures, seminars, discussions, case studies, individual and group projects. We will also use approaches that encourage students to focused teaching - flipped learning. Assistant will conduct coursework with the students.
Readings
- Eman, K. (2008). Uvod v fenomenološko analizo ekološke kriminalitete. Varstvoslovje, 10(1), 220–239.
- Eman, K. (2021). Green criminology perspective on light pollution. V N. Peršak in A. Di Ronco (ur.), Harm and disorder in the urban space: social control, sense and sensibility (str. 78–100). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Eman, K. (2022). Ekološka kriminaliteta in kriminologija: praktikum (1. izd.). Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba.
- Eman, K. in Hacin, R. (2021). Uvod v kartiranje kriminalitete (1. izd.). Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba.
- Eman, K. in Meško, G. (2013). Green issues in South-Eastern Europe. V N. South in A. Brisman (ur.), Routledge international handbook of green criminology (str. 230–240). Routledge.
- Eman, K. in Meško, G. (2023). Slovensko podeželje in ekološka kriminaliteta = Slovenian countryside and environmental crime. V G. Meško in R. Hacin (ur.), 9. Nacionalna konferenca o varnosti v lokalnih skupnostih: varnost v lokalnih skupnostih – dobre prakse, aktualne teme in raziskovanje varnosti v lokalnih skupnostih v zadnjem desetletju (str. 147–158). Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba.
- Eman, K., Meško, G. in Ivančič, D. (2012). Ekološka kriminaliteta v Pomurju. Varstvoslovje, 14(1), 113–131.
- Eman, K., Meško, G., Dobovšek, B. in Sotlar, A. (2013), Environmental crime and green criminology in South Eastern Europe – practice and research. Crime, Law and Social Change, 59(3), 341–358.
- Eman, K., Meško, G. in Fields, C. B. (2013). Environmental crime a new security challenge. V A. Maas (ur.), Global environmental change: New drivers for resistance, crime and terrorism? (str. 15–35). Nomos.
- Meško, G., Sotlar, A. in Eman, K. (ur.). (2012). Ekološka kriminaliteta in varovanje okolja – multidisciplinarne perspektive. Fakulteta z varnostne vede UM.
- Pečar, J. (1981). Ekološka kriminaliteta in kriminologija. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, 1(34), 33–45.
