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.
