Avi Brisman & Bill McClanahan 
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century 
Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much

Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology’s first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the Global North and Global South, water and climate change, the commodification of water and privatization, water security and pacification, and activism and resistance surrounding issues of access and pollution. With examples ranging from Rio de Janeiro to Flint, Michigan to the Thames River, this original study offers a comprehensive criminological overview of the contemporary and historical relationship between water and crime.  Coinciding with the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development, ” 2018–2028, this timely volume will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of green criminology, as well as those interested in critical geography, environmental anthropology, environmental sociology, political ecology, and the study of corporate crime and state crime.

Table of Content

1. Too Dirty: Water and Pollution.- 2. Too Little: Water and Access.- 3. Too Threatened: Water and Climate Change.- 4. Too Costly: Water and Privatization.- 5. Too Insecure: Water and Security.- 6. Too Important: Water and Resistance.

About the author

Avi Brisman is Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA; Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia; and Conjoint Associate Professor in the Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.   





Bill Mc Clanahan is Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA. 


 


Nigel South is Professor and Director, Centre for Criminology, University of Essex, UK; Adjunct Professor, Crime and Justice Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. 

 


Reece Walters is Professor and Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia; a Professorial Fellow at the Open University (UK); and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia.