Environmental crime in Latin America: the theft of nature and the poisoning of the land

This text is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America.

Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world.

The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the 'theft of nature' and the 'poisoning of the land' in Latin America through and from processes of agro-industry expansion,biopiracy, legal and illegal trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining.