The Falling Carbon Footprint of Acquisitive and Violent Offences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8402298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Skudder (Home Office, corresponding author), Ian Brunton-Smith (0000-0002-0077-5602, University of Warwick), John Cole (Home Office), Alan McInnes (Secured by Design, Police Crime Prevention Initiatives, London, UK), Angela Druckman (0000-0002-2515-0369, University of Surrey) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-371 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azx009 |
| OpenAlex | W2593345257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Cutting carbon emissions, wherever they occur, is a global priority and those associated with crime are no exception. We show that between 1995 and 2015, the carbon footprint of acquisitive and violent crime has dropped by 62 per cent, a total reduction of 54 million tonnes CO2e throughout this period. Although the environmental harm associated with crime is likely to be considered lower in importance than social or economic impacts, a focus on reducing high carbon crimes (burglary and vehicle offences) and high carbon aspects of the footprint (the need to replace stolen/damaged property) could be encouraged. Failure to acknowledge these potential environmental benefits may result in crime prevention strategies being unsustainable and carbon reduction targets being missed.
Carbon fibers · Carbon Footprint · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economics · Falling (accident) · Green criminology · Greenhouse gas · Harm · Natural resource economics · Psychiatry · Violent crime · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Ecology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Exploring the international decline in crime rates
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The Cambridge Crime Harm Index
The International Crime Drop
Addressing the Carbon‐Crime Blind Spot
Defining climate-change victims
Crime as Pollution
Crime Place and Pollution
Widening the scope of policies to address climate change
Dire forecast
Environmental Crime
Why the Crime Drop
Weather and Crime
Introducing Conservation Criminology
Is Violent Crime Increasing or Decreasing? a New Methodology to Measure Repeat Attacks Making Visible the Significance of Gender and Domestic Relations
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |