Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them

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Dr Julia Shaw

Green Crime

Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them

Dr Julia Shaw

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Canongate Books
09 October 2025

True crime; Corporate crime; Pollution & threats to the environment; Popular psychology

Green Crime uses true crime stories and social science to fundamentally redefine our relationship with the planet and each other. It is a fresh, fascinating and rigorously scientific book that helps us to understand some of the biggest dangers of our time.

Rooted in her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Dr Shaw plunges the reader into the world of green criminology, applying insights from ecopsychology and environmental law to help disentangle why and how environmental crimes are being committed.

This book reframes and personalises issues that are often so vast that they cannot be comprehended. Each chapter follows a main criminal case to illustrate a different facet of how, and why, we are destroying the planet and justifying atrocities against humans along the way. For each case she asks: Who are the people behind environmental destruction and death? What are their, and our, justifications? Are these actions crimes? If not, should they be? What legal loopholes are they currently exploiting? And most importantly, how do we disarm the threats to our future?

By: Dr Julia Shaw
Imprint: Canongate Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 456g
ISBN: 9781805301158
ISBN 10: 1805301152
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist at University College London. Her academic work, teaching, and role as an expert witness, focus on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. She is the author of three books; Bi, The Memory Illusion and Making Evil. Her books have appeared in more than 20 languages. She is also the co-host of the hit BBC podcast Bad People which combines true crime and science. She appears regularly in popular press, including in TV true crime formats. @drjuliashaw | drjuliashaw.com

Reviews for Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them

Praise for Dr Julia Shaw: 'Well-researched, cogent and compelling . . . Shaw is always an engaging guide' - Independent 'Warmly, chattily written . . . Shaw draws knowledgeably on psychological and neuroscientific research' - Guardian 'Most of it is unsettling . . . It's also rational, intelligent and necessary' - Herald