Environmental Justice and the Role of Criminology: An Analytical Review of 33 Years of Environmental Justice Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 3-2006
Journal / Book Title
Criminal Justice Review
Abstract
An increasing number of scholars and activists have begun to tackle a variety of issues relevant to environmental justice studies. This study attempts to address the role of criminologists in this domain. The authors examine 425 environmental justice articles in 204 academic journals, representing 18 programs/departments between 1970 and 2003. First, they measure the environmental justice contributions in the literature by academic department or activist affiliation. Second, they identify the major themes in the literature as they have developed and reveal the current and future directions of environmental justice studies. Such themes include the spatial distribution of hazards, social movements, law and public policy, and environmental discrimination. Finally, the authors seek to call attention to the evident linkages between accepted areas of criminological scholarship and environmental justice. From this latter objective, the authors seek to demonstrate how criminology and criminal justice can advance this critical dialogue and social movement.
DOI
10.1177/0734016806288258
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Zilney, Lisa Anne; McGurrin, Danielle; and Zahran, Sammy, "Environmental Justice and the Role of Criminology: An Analytical Review of 33 Years of Environmental Justice Research" (2006). Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 43.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/justice-studies-facpubs/43
Published Citation
Zilney, L. A., McGurrin, D., & Zahran, S. (2006). Environmental Justice and the Role of Criminology: An Analytical Review of 33 Years of Environmental Justice Research. Criminal Justice Review, 31(1), 47-62.