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Food crime and green criminology
2020This chapter seeks to highlight the ways in which green criminology can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of food crime and the harms it can entail. The authors begin with a survey of food crime typologies, focussing on two broad categories: (1) food crimes defined as such by legal standards (including food adulteration, counterfeiting and ...
Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald
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Food: Crime, Harm and Regulation
Studi sulla questione criminale, 2023We begin by outlining the nature of the global food industry – a complex network of activities relating to the supply and consumption of food products across the world which impacts significantly upon the health and indeed sustainability of planet earth and its people.
Whyte, D, Tombs, S
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2016
Some states deny their own citizens one of the most fundamental human rights: the right to food. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, a leading scholar of human rights, discusses state food crimes, demonstrating how governments have introduced policies that cause malnutrition or starvation among their citizens and others for whom they are responsible.
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Some states deny their own citizens one of the most fundamental human rights: the right to food. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, a leading scholar of human rights, discusses state food crimes, demonstrating how governments have introduced policies that cause malnutrition or starvation among their citizens and others for whom they are responsible.
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Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system
2018This chapter acknowledges the concept of food crime within the current global industrialised food system and explores three examples of crimes of consumption. A variety of acts of citizen resistance or ‘counter crimes’ in response to food crime are discussed.
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Food Crime and the UK's Food Crime Unit
2017The aim of this paper is to outline the nature and characteristics of food crime and to provide a short case study of the establishment of the National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) in the UK. The findings reveals that food crime is complex and well-hidden or disguised, that it can have a wide range of impacts on the economy and society but that, to date, it ...
Jones, Peter +2 more
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The Harms and Crimes of Farming/Food
2023Abstract The processes of food production and consumption illuminate the relationship between society and the natural environment as well as the inner workings of the global political economy. As a result, food has been increasingly used by scholars to explore the world, and food-focused research is a rapidly growing research area ...
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Food Justice as Crime Prevention
Journal of Food Law & Policy, 2009In December 2008, Governor David Paterson (D-NY) proposed an 18 percent tax on nondiet sodas and fruit drinks containing less than 70 percent natural fruit juice. While the tax was part of a broader budget proposal designed to address New York State's fiscal crisis - a plan that that included new taxes and tax hikes on 137 items and services' - state ...
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2018
A food crime perspective involves an evaluation of the (lack of) criminal, legal, and regulatory organisation, and the insufficient, ineffective, or lack of enforcement, which surrounds the criminal behaviour and social harms produced within systems of food production, processing, marketing, distribution, selling, consumption, and disposal, victimising
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A food crime perspective involves an evaluation of the (lack of) criminal, legal, and regulatory organisation, and the insufficient, ineffective, or lack of enforcement, which surrounds the criminal behaviour and social harms produced within systems of food production, processing, marketing, distribution, selling, consumption, and disposal, victimising
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Food, Crime, Justice and Security: (Food) Security for Whom?
2017This paper explores food and food crime in the context(s) of the increasingly powerful discourse(s) of security and securitization. Because food has long been tied to conflict, we recognize it as a material need that frequently contributes to or drives conflict.
Brisman, Avi, South, Nigel
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Responding to food crime and the threat of the ‘food police’
2018The contemporary corporate-industrial food system – the ‘risky food regime’ – produces a particular conceptualisation of food crime. Discursively, this global era of food constructs and maintains a risk discourse which normalises food crime and shifts blame for food harms away from food corporations, to responsibilise consumers for ‘food choice’.
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