Globalization and environmental harm

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 29, Heft 1/2, S. 1-187

Abstract

Examines environmental crimes committed by entities such as the World Bank, the US military, the chemical industry, and other toxic waste disposers; some focus on social justice for the disempowered, including the use of racial politics to justify restricting rights; US; 12 articles, and a book review. Contents: The World Bank and crimes of globalization, by David O. Friedrichs, Jessica Friedrichs; Resisting toxic militarism: Vieques versus the U.S. Navy, by Déborah Berman Santana; "Attac": a global social movement? by Vincenzo Ruggiero; Environmental crime and pollution: wasteful reflections, by Alan Block; Environmental harm and the political economy of consumption, by Rob White; Sustainability--long view or long word? by Mario Petrucci; Review of Pearce and Tombs, "Toxic capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry, by Vincenzo Ruggiero; Expansion of police power in public schools and the vanishing rights of students, by Randall R. Beger; Prisoners of war: Black female incarceration at the end of the 1980s, by Garry Rolison et al.; Crime and justice in American Indian communities, by Lisa M. Poupart; For their own good: benevolent rhetoric and exclusionary language in public officials' discourse on immigrant-related issues, by Cecilia Menjívar, Sang Kil; A report from the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, Durban, South Africa, 2001, by Rita Maran.