St johns university Criminal Justice Environmental Crime Essay

The three essay questions are below:

1. What is green criminology? Why is this part of the critical criminology tradition? Why should criminologists care about green crime? (The last question is opinion-based, but I would back it up with facts such as the reality of climate change). Articles relevant to this question will be uploaded after assignment is accepted by Studypool tutor. For facts about climate change, you can use different credible information you can find online that is not academic. Just be sure to cite it.

Pick at least 3 TERMS that need to be included in essay #1 from the below:

• Critical criminology
  • Green Criminology
• Critical race theory
  • Interest convergence
• Socioecological framework
  • Focusing mostly on macrolevel (institutions, communities, nation states, and global)
• Sociology of attention
• Sociological imagination

2. Connect power over society to each of the four isms: neoliberalism, imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. Now let’s zoom in to capitalism and discuss how the treadmill of production from capitalism is directly associated with green crimes and harm. Why is the idea of green capitalism a deceptive distraction created by the powerful? (For the last part of the question: think of Capitalism – Green capitalism, Neoliberal capitalism, Disaster capitalism, Price gouging during disasters and global crises; Imperialism, Colonialism)

Pick at least 3 TERMS that need to be included in essay #2 from the below:

• Crimes of the powerful
• Democracy in Chains
• Components of neoliberalism
• Deregulation
• Dismantle EPA
• ALEC
• Dark Money
• Citizens United
• Corporate lobbying and suing of gov’ts
• Framing corporate/gov’t problem into individual level issues
  • Think tanks
  • Political gaslighting
  • Narratives
• The radical right’s billionaire stealth plan
• Result: Rich get richer, poor get poorer or prison or climate issues
• Koch network

3. What is intersectionality? How is the concept of intersectionality tied to green criminology? That is, discuss the fact that those that are most marginalized are those most vulnerable to green harms and climate change. YOU SHOULD BRING IN THE CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AS WELL. 

Pick at least 3 TERMS that need to be included in essay #3 from the below:

• Iceberg metaphor
• Ripple effect
• Zoom in and out
• History Matters
• People’s History
• Narratives
• Intersectionality