Crime, violence, and global warming / / by John P. Crank and Linda S. Jacoby

• Autore: Crank John P. <1947-, >
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2015]; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.738/741; 363.738741; 364
• Soggetto topico: Crime; Violence; Climatic changes
• Persona (resp. second.): JacobyLinda S.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prologue: Welcome to the Apocalypse; Section I Global Warming; Chapter 1 The Challenges of Global Warming Research; Is Global Warming Research Concocted by a Bunch of Academic Anti-American Radicals? The Use and Misuse of Science in Climate Study and Forecasting; Building a Link Between Climate and Crime; Endnotes; Chapter 2 What Is Global Warming?; The Ordinariness of Global Temperature Changes; How Do Greenhouse Gases Heat the Planet?; What Are the Anthropogenic Sources of Greenhouse Gases? ; Global Warming and the Problem of FeedbacksSecondary Feedbacks; How Long Will Global Warming Last?; Tipping Points; Climate Sensitivity; What Is the Basic Evidence for Warming?; How Hot Will It Get?; Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Climate Change Denial; The Consensus of Scientific Work on Climate Change; Citizen Views of Climate Change; The Global Warming Denialist Movement as Political Economy; Factors Affecting Climate Change Policy; Carbon Producers and Emissions; From Production to Denial: The Climate Change Denialist Movement; A Wake-Up Call: Corporate Recognition of Climate Risk ; Conclusion: Laissez-Fair Capitalism, Risk, and Metabolic RiftEndnotes; Section II Climate Change and the Rending of the Social Fabric; Chapter 4 Modeling the Relationship Between Global Warming, Violence, and Crime; Model One: Environmental Scarcity and Violence; The Twin Dilemmas of Resource Scarcity; Model Two: Agnew and Dire Forecast; Lower Social Control and Increased Social Disorganization; Opportunities for Crime; Routine Activities and Climate Change; Endnotes; Chapter 5 Consequences of Global Warming; Diseases and Health Costs ; Pathogens and Diseases in Contemporary Life: The Third WavePathogens; Disease and State Security: The Challenge of an Invisible Enemy; Endnotes; Chapter 6 The Problems of Water; Water: The Fist of Climate Change; Big Water and Big Winds; Sea-Rise and Coastal Flooding; Freshwater Availability, Droughts, and Water Shortage; Water Shortages; Conclusion: How Much Fresh Water Is Left?; Endnotes; Section III Migration Futures and Megacities: A Collision Course With Global Warming; Chapter 7 Refugee Migration and Settlement Amid Climate Change: A Prescription for Violence? ; Contemporary Dimensions of Refugee PopulationsHow Many Refugees Are There?; Climate Refugee: Real or Alarmist?; Refugees, Crime, and Violence; A Cautionary Tale: Refugees and Opportunity; Migration, Organized Crime, and Sex Slavery; Climate and Its Impact on Migration; From Subcontinent to World: Sea-Rise and Migration at +4 Celsius; Refugee Recognition as a UN Mandate; Endnotes; Chapter 8 The Future of Migration: A Planet of Megacities; Where Are People Migrating? The Global Littorals and Megadeltas; Megacities: Hardening or Fragmentation?; Megacities and the Modernity Lag ; Megacities, Inequality, and Crime
• Sommario/riassunto: Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors, resulting in wars, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each aspect of this complicated web, helping readers to evaluate conflicting claims about global warming and to analyze evidence of the current and potential impact of climate change on conflict and crime. Beginning with an overview of the science of global warming, the authors move on to the links between climate change, scarce resources, and crime. Their approach takes in the full scope of causes and consequences, present and future, in the United States and throughout the world. The book concludes by looking ahead at the problem of forecasting future security implications if global warming continues or accelerates. This fresh approach to the criminology of climate change challenges readers to examine all sides of this controversial question and to formulate their own analysis of our planet’s future.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crime, violence, and global warming
• ISBN: 1-138-16786-X; 1-315-72189-9; 1-317-52335-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808294703321
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