Crimes Against the Environment

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. Critically assess connections between global and local transnational criminality and the ways this endangers the environment.
2. Critically evaluate the capacity of criminological theory and research to explain contemporary developments in the field.
3. Recognise and critique the limits of criminological knowledge in explaining particular transnational/international crimes, and how they relate to the environment.
4. Critically assess facets of victimisation relating to crimes against the environment.
5. Critically assess the effectiveness of responses to crimes against the environment, broadly defined.

This module introduces students to emerging and competing perspectives regarding the neglected topic of crimes and harms the environment. This includes the natural environment (flora and fauna on land and in the oceans) as well as the build environment including heritage and cultural property crimes.
This module enables students to comprehensively evaluate crime and harm in this context, examining the interplay between green and traditional crimes. Students will understand the intricate relationships among offences against the latter, while critically analysing responses to these offences.

This module aims to enable students to comprehensively evaluate crime and harm concerning human and non-human entities in a global environment and to understand the intricate relationships between these alongside responses to crime and harm in this context.

The exact content of the module will alter year on year as this is a fast developing area of study. However, content will always focus on the broad topics of human and non-human abuse and harm in a variety of contexts relating to the environment, broadly defined. The latter may include areas such as wildlife crime, pollution, deforestation, marine habitat destruction, cultural property destruction, heritage crime, illegal fishing, dumping of toxic waste, and many other areas that pertain to harms in this context. Responses to these problems and the effectiveness of these responses will also be analysed and assessed.

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cydymffurfio a FfCChC Lefel 7