Punishment and climate change

Southern voices on cooperation-based justice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19472602
AutoresAndre Ribeiro Giamberardino (0000-0003-4018-7730, Universidade Federal do Paraná, autor correspondente)
Ano2026
Data de publicação2026-06-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheoretical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13624806261453595
OpenAlexW7164839191
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas40

This article argues that addressing climate change requires abandoning state-centered punishment models as our response to harm and violence. The focus here is not environmental justice per se, but a consideration of how the impacts of climate change may alter criticisms of incarceration and western punitive practices in a broad sense. An approach centered on climate change can promote alternative models of justice that go beyond punishment. To support this central argument, the article has three steps: it first critiques superficial “greening of penology” efforts, advocating for ecological, participatory conflict transformation. It then delineates an ecocentric justice framework drawing on two fundamental tenets: decoupling accountability from harsh treatment through punishment and fostering non-state reparative practices. Lastly, it critically reviews the appropriation of Indigenous thought in western restorative justice, yet emphasizes other transformative, community-based harm responses from Brazil rooted in ecological principles as promising for reimagining non-punitive, climate justice

Accountability · Climate change · Climate justice · Economic Justice · Harm · Indigenous · Punishment (psychology) · Punitive damages · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental law and policy · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses