Scholars
Robert Douglas White
University of Tasmania, Australia
Based in
Australia
Australia
Rob White is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Criminology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Among his recent books are Climate Change Criminology (Bristol University Press), Theorising Green Criminology (Routledge) and Applied Green Criminology (Edward Elgar). In 2020, he was awarded the Sellin & Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for contributions to international criminology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.
Country(ies) of Specialty
AustraliaFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate law and litigation Climate Justice Social movementsPublications
Authored Books
Lampkin, J. & White, R. (2023) Space Criminology. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R., Haines, F. & Asquith, N. (2023) Crime and Criminology [7th edition]. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
White, R. (2023) Advanced Introduction to Applied Green Criminology. London: Edward Elgar.
White, R. (2022) Theorising Green Criminology: Selected Essays. London: Routledge.
Van der Velden, J. & White, R. (2021) The Extinction Curve: Growth and Globalisation in the Climate Endgame. London: Emerald.
Sutton, A., Cherney, A., White, R. & Clancy, G. (2021) Crime Prevention [3rd edition]. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
White, R. (2018) Climate Change Criminology. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Clifford, K. & White, R. (2017) Media and Crime: Content, Contexts and Consequences. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Graham, H. & White, R. (2015) Innovative Justice. London: Routledge.
White, R. & Heckenberg, D. (2014) Green Criminology: An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2013) Environmental Harm: An Eco-Justice Perspective. Bristol: Policy Press.
White, R. (2011) Transnational Environmental Crime: Towards an Eco-Global Criminology. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2008) Crimes Against Nature: Environmental Criminology and Ecological Justice. Devon: Willan.
Edited Books
White, R.(ed) (forthcoming, 2024) Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime. London: Edward Elgar.
Blaustein, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Pino, N. & White, R. (eds) (2021) Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development. London: Emerald Publishing.
White, R. (ed) (2020) Environmental Crime. Vols 1 & 2. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Spapens, T., White, R., van Uhm, D. & Huisman, W. (eds) (2018) Green Crimes and Dirty Money. London: Routledge.
Pink, G. & White, R. (eds) (2016) Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Spapens, T., White, R. & Huisman, W. (eds) (2016) Environmental Crime in Transnational Context: Global issues in green enforcement and criminology. London: Routledge.
Brisman, A., South, N. & White, R. (eds) (2015) Environmental Crime and Social Conflict. Surrey: Ashgate.
Spapens, T., White, R. & Kluin, M (eds) (2014) Environmental Crime and Its Victims: Perspectives within Green Criminology. Surrey: Ashgate.
White, R. (ed) (2014) Green Criminology [Critical Concepts in Criminology]. Routledge Major Works Collection – 4 volumes. London: Routledge.
White, R. (ed) (2013) Transnational Environmental Crime [The Library of Essays on Transnational Crime]. Surrey: Ashgate.
White, R. (ed) (2012) Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective. New York: Springer.
White, R. (ed) (2010) Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives. Devon: Willan Publishing.
White, R. (ed) (2009) Environmental Crime: A Reader. Devon: Willan Publishing.
White, R. (ed) (2004) Controversies in Environmental Sociology. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Ecocentrism, Harm and Morality in Environmental Crime Proceedings’, Neue Kriminalpolitik(New Criminal Policy).
White, R. (2023) ‘Conceptions of Ecocide and Challenges for Social Transformation’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
White, R. (2022) ‘Environmental Crime and the Harm Prevention Criminalist’, Frontiers in Conservation Science.
Medlock, F. & White, R. (2022) ‘Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation’, Erasmus Law Review.
Langridge, M. & White, R. (2022) ‘Shades of Green: Change, Continuity and Conservation among Tasmanian Forestry Workers’, Journal of Sociology.
Pedersen, C. & White, R. (2021) ‘Discourses of Discord: Animal Activism and Moral Judgement’, International Criminology, 1(3): 178-192.
Clifford, K. & White, R. (2021) ‘News media framing of the Murray-Darling Basin “water theft” controversy’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, DOI: 10.1177/00048658211000094.
Baird, A., Walters, R & White, R. (2020) ‘Water Theft Malfeasance in Australia’, International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v10i1.1604.
Barnes, A. & White, R. (2020) ‘Mapping Emotions: Exploring the impact of the Aussie Farms Map’, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. DOI: 10.1177/1043986220910306.
White, R. (2019) ‘Water Theft in Rural Contexts’, International Journal of Rural Criminology, 5(1): 140-159.
Gore, M., Braszak, P., Brown, J., Cassey, P., Duffy, R., Fisher, J., Graham, J., Justo-Hanani, R., Kirkwood, A., Lunstrum, E., Machalaba, C., Masse, F., Manguiat, M., Omrow, D., Stoett, P., Wyatt, T. and White, R. (2019) ‘Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development’, Nature Sustainability, 12 August.
Natali, L. & White, R. (2019) ‘The Ecocide-Genocide Nexus: A green criminology perspective’, La Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia [Journal of the Italian Society of Criminology]: XIII (3): 186-195.
Hasler, O., Walters, R. & White, R. (2019) ‘In and Against the State: The Dynamics of Environmental Activism’, Critical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09432-0.
White, R. (2018) ‘Ecocide and the Carbon Crimes of the Powerful’, University of Tasmania Law Review, 37(2): 239-255.
White, R. (2018) ‘Ecocentrism and Criminal Justice’, Theoretical Criminology, 22(3): 342-362.
White, R. (2018) ‘Green Criminology and the Non-Human Victim’, International Review of Victimology, 24(2): 239-255.
White, R. (2017) ‘Corruption and the Securitisation of Nature’, International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 6(4): 55-70.
White, R. (2017) ‘Criminological Perspectives on Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide’, Current Climate Change Reports, DOI: 10.1007/s40641-017-0075-9.
Blaustein, J., Pino, N., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & White, R. (2017) ‘Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals’, British Journal of Criminology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx061.
Salama, O. & White, R. (2017) ‘Dissent, Litigation, and Investigation: Hitting the Powerful Where It Hurts’, Critical Criminology, 25(4): 523-537. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9370-y.
White, R. & Pink, G. (2017) ‘Responding to Organised Environmental Crimes: Collaborative Approaches and Capacity Building’, South African Crime Quarterly, 60: 37-44.
Barrett, S. & White, R. (2017) ‘Disrupting Environmental Crime at the Local Level: An Operational Perspective’, Palgrave Communications, 3(2): DOI: 10.1057/s41599-017-0006-3.
White, R. (2017) ‘The Four Ways of Eco-Global Criminology’, International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 6(1): 8-22.
White, R. (2016) ‘Experts and Expertise in the Land and Environment Court’, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences. DOI: http://dx/doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2016.1218544.
White, R. (2016) ‘Reparative Justice, Environmental Crime and Penalties for the Powerful’, Crime, Law and Social Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10611-016-9635-5.
White, R. (2016) ‘Criminality and Climate Change’, Nature Climate Change, Vol.6: 737-739.
White, R. (2016) ‘Building NESTs to Combat Environmental Crime Networks’, Trends in Organized Crime, 19(1): 88-105.
White, R. & Kramer, R. (2015) ‘Critical Criminology and the Struggle Against Climate Change Ecocide’, Critical Criminology, 23: 383-399.
White, R. (2015) ‘Indigenous Communities, Environmental Protection and Restorative Justice’, Australian Indigenous Law Review, 18(2): 43-54.
White, R. & Graham, H. (2015) ‘Greening Justice: Examining the interfaces of criminal, social and ecological justice’, British Journal of Criminology, 55(5): 845-865.
White, R. (2014) ‘Environmental Insecurity and Fortress Mentality’, International Affairs, 90(4): 835-851.
White, R (2013) ‘Resource Extraction Leaves Something Behind: Mining and Environmental Justice’, International Journal for Crime and Justice, 2(1): 50-64.
White, R. (2013) ‘Environmental Crime and Problem-Solving Courts’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 59(3): 267-278.
White, R. (2012) ‘Land Theft and Rural Eco-Crime’, International Journal of Rural Criminology, 1(2): 203-217.
White, R. (2012) ‘NGO Engagement in Environmental Law Enforcement: Critical Reflections’, Australasian Policing: A Journal of Professional Practice and Research, 4(1): 7-12.
White, R. (2012) ‘Environmental Forensic Studies and Toxic Towns’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice 24(1): 105-119.
White, R. & Heckenberg, D. (2011) ‘Key Vulnerabilities and Limitations in the Management of Hazardous Waste and Its Disposal: A Checklist Assessment Tool’, Journal of Environmental Protection, 2(9): 1257-1263.
White, R. (2011) ‘Environmental Law Enforcement: The Importance of Global Networks and Collaborative Practices’, Australasian Policing: A Journal of Professional Practice and Research, 3(1): 16-22.
White, R. (2011) ‘Climate Change, Uncertain Futures and the Sociology of Youth’, Youth Studies Australia, 30(3): 13-19.
White, R. & Heckenberg, D. (2011) ‘Environmental Horizon Scanning and Criminological Theory and Practice’, European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research, 17(1): 87-100.
White, R. (2010) ‘Environmental Victims and Resistance to State Crime Through Transnational Activism’, Social Justice, 36(3): 46-60.
White, R. (2010) ‘Prosecution and Sentencing in Relation to Environmental Crime: Recent Socio-Legal Developments’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 53(4): 365-381.
White, R. (2009) ‘Researching Transnational Environmental Harm: Toward an Eco-Global Criminology’, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 33(2): 229-248.
White, R. (2009) ‘Toxic Cities: Globalising the Problem of Waste’, Social Justice, 35(3): 107-119.
White, R. (2008) ‘The Transnational Context of Local Environmental Crime’, New Zealand Sociology, 23(2): 119-134.
White, R. (2008) ‘Environmental Harm and Crime Prevention’, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No.360, Australian Institute of Criminology.
White, R. (2008) ‘Depleted Uranium, State Crime and the Politics of Knowing’. Theoretical Criminology, 12(1): 31-54.
White, R. (2005) ‘Stifling Environmental Dissent: On SLAPPS and Gunns’. Alternative Law Journal, 30(6): 268-273.
White, R. (2005) ‘Environmental Crime in Global Context: Exploring the Theoretical and Empirical Complexities’. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16(3): 271-285.
Whelan, J. & White, R. (2005) ‘Does Privatising Water Makes Us Sick?’ Health Sociology Review, 14(2):135-145.
White, R. (2003) ‘Environmental Issues and the Criminological Imagination’, Theoretical Criminology 7(4): 483-506.
White, R. (2002) ‘Environmental Harm and the Political Economy of Consumption’. Social Justice, 29(1&2): 82-102.
White, R. (1999) ‘Criminality, Risk and Environmental Harm’. Griffith Law Review, 8(2): 235-257.
White, R. (1998) ‘Environmental Criminology and Sydney Water’. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 10(2): 214-219.
Halsey, M. & White, R. (1998) ‘Crime, Ecophilosophy and Environmental Harm’, Theoretical Criminology, 2(3): 345-372.
Book Chapters
White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Environmental Harms and Innovative Justice’, in S. Smith & I. Sahramaki (eds) Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement, London: Edward Elgar.
Kaiser, R. & White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Freeze Outs and Melt Downs in Antarctica: Harms, Transgressions and Conflicts in the Southern Continent’, in M. Bowden & G. Mesko (eds) Rural Criminology in Global Perspective. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Climate Change’, in R. White (ed) Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime. London: Edward Elgar.
White, R. & Barrett, S. (in press, 2024) ‘Disrupting Environmental Crime’, in R. White (ed) Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime. London: Edward Elgar.
White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Ecocidal Tendencies of Late Capitalism’, in E. Carrabine & A. Di Ronco (eds) Essays in Honour of Nigel South. London: Routledge.
White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Climate Change and Criminal Justice’, Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology [online].
White, R. (forthcoming) ‘What is Green Criminology?’, Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology [online].
White, R. (in press, 2024) ‘Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide’, in P. Stoett & D. Omrow (eds) Ecoviolence and Human Exploitation: Towards a Green/Blue Human Security and Ecoviolence Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mocatta, G. & White, R. (2024) ‘Universities as Exemplars of Climate Action’, in K. Beasy, C. Smith & J. Watson (eds) Engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals through Education and Training. Springer.
White, R. (2023) ‘David and Goliath: Exploring the male burdens of patriarchal capitalism’, in P. Davies, J. Heyden, E. Milne, K. Peggs & T. Wyatt (eds) Gendering Green Criminology. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Stoett, P. & White, R. (2023) ‘Collapse: The Climate Endgame’, in C. Butler (ed) Climate Change and Global Health. CABI.
White, R. (2023) ‘Colonialism, Knowledge and White Man’s Burden’, in D. Goyes (ed) Green Crime in the Global South: Essays on Southern Green Criminology. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Stoett, P. & White, R. (2023) “Predators to Wisdom: INTERPOL NESTS and Sustainable Development’, in M. Segger, D. Wardell & A Harrington (eds) CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
White, R. (2023) ‘Rural victims of the climate change crisis’, in R. Hale and A. Harkness (eds) Rural Victims. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2023) ‘Antarctica’; ‘Environmental and Green Criminology’; ‘Rural Folk Crime’; ‘Wildlife Crime, Trafficking and Poaching’, in Harkness, A., Petersen, J., Bowden, M., Pedersen, C. & Donnermeyer, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
White, R. (2022) ‘Restorative Justice, Repairing the Harm and Environmental Outcomes’ in B. Pali, M. Forsyth & Tepper, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2022) ‘Ecocide’, in R. Atkinson (ed) Shades of Deviance. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2022) ‘Climate Change and Geographies of Ecocide’, in M. Bowden & A.Harkness (eds) Rural Tranformations and Rural Crime: International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
White, R. (2022) ‘Ecocentrism and Criminal Proceedings for Offences against Environmental Laws’, in E. Fisher & B. Preston (eds) An Environment Court in Action: Function, Doctrine and Process. London: Hart.
White, R. (2022) ‘Environmental Crime, Ecological Expertise and Specialist Environment Courts’, in J. Gacek & R. Jochelson (eds) Green Criminology and the Law. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2022) ‘Global Harms and the Natural Environment’, in P. Davies, P. Leighton & T. Wyatt (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2022) ‘Green Criminology, Environmental Harms and Eco-Justice’ in Hamilton, C., Nelken, D. & Pakes, F. (eds) The Research Handbook on Comparative Criminal Justice. London: Edward Elgar.
White, R. (2021) ‘United Nations Initiatives in Preventing Environmental Crime’, in S. Redo & H. Kury (eds) Crime Prevention and Justice in 2030: The UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Springer.
Kramer, R. & White, R. (2021) ‘Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and its Impacts: A Criminological Perspective’, in J. Blaustein, K. Fitz-Gibbon, N. Pino & R. White (eds) The Emerald Handbook on Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development. London: Emerald Publishing.
White, R. (2020) ‘Corruption and Administration in Environmental Protection’, in A. Graycar (ed) Handbook on Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration. London: Edgar Elgar.
White, R. (2020), ‘Eco-Justice and Destructive Mining in Australia: Lessons from the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court’, in D. van Uhm & Y. Zabyelina (eds) Mining and Organized Crime. London: Palgrave.
Weis, V. & White, R. (2020) ‘Environmental Victims and Climate Change Activists’, in J. Tapley and P. Davies (eds) Victimology: Research, Policy and Activism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. & Eman, K. (2020) ‘Green Criminology, Water Issues, Human Rights and Private Profit’, in K. Eman, G. Mesko, L. Segato & M. Migliorini (eds) Water, Governance and Crime Issues. Switzerland: Springer.
Eman, K. & White, R. (2020) ‘Water and Organised Crime’, in K. Eman, G. Mesko, L. Segato & M. Migliorini (eds) Water, Governance and Crime Issues. Switzerland: Springer.
Heckenberg, D. & White, R. (2020) ‘Innovative Approaches to Researching Environmental Crime’, in A. Brisman & N. South (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2019) ‘Transnational Environmental Crime’, in M. Natarajan (ed) International and Transnational Crime and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
White, R. & Hasler, O. (2019) ‘Ecocide’, in W. DeKeseredy, C. Rennison & A. Sanchez (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Violence Studies. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2019) ‘Theoretical Perspectives on Environmental Violence’, in W. DeKeseredy, C. Rennison & A. Sanchez (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Violence Studies. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2019) ‘Resisting Ecocide: Engaging in the Politics of the Future’, in E. Currie & W. DeKeseredey (eds) Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression: Strategies for Challenging the Rise of the Right. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2019) ‘Loving the Planet to Death: Tourism and Ecocide’, in T. Raymen & O. Smith (eds) Deviant Leisure. Bristol: Policy Press.
White, R. (2019) ‘Ecocide’, in E. McLaughlin & J. Muncie (eds) Sage Dictionary of Criminology. London: Sage.
White, R. (2018) ‘Transnational Environmental Crime and Global Insecurity’, in P. Reichel & R. Randa (eds) Transnational Crime and Global Security. New York. Praeger Security International.
White, R. (2018) ‘Sentencing Environmental Offenders: It is not just about the money’, in T. Spapens, R. White, D. van Uhm & W. Huisman (eds) Green Crimes and Dirty Money. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2018) ‘The Global Context of Transnational Environmental Crime in Asia’, in K. Carrington, R. Hogg, J. Scott & M. Sozzo (eds) Palgrave Handbook on Criminology and the Global South. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. & Yeates, J. (2018) ‘Farming and Climate Change’, in R. Hinch & A. Gray (eds) Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do about Them. Bristol: Policy Press.
White, R. (2018) ‘Critical Green Criminology’, in W. DeKeseredy & M. Dragiewicz (eds) Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2018) ‘Paradoxes of Poaching’, in W. Moreto (ed) Wildlife Crime: From Theory to Practice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
White, R. (2018) ‘Global Warming and Criminological Theory and Practice’, in S. Decker & K. Wright (eds) Criminology and Public Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
White, R. (2017) ‘Carbon Criminals, Climate Change and Ecocide’, in C. Holley & C. Shearing (eds) Criminology and the Anthropocene. London: Routledge.
White, R. & Wright Monod, S. (2017) ‘Green Criminology: Environmental Crime in Australia and New Zealand’, in A. Deckert & R. Sarre (eds) The Australian and New Zealand Handbook of Criminology, Crime and Justice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2017) ‘Technology, Environmental Harm and Green Criminology’, in M. McGuire & T. Holt (eds) The Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2017) ‘Carbon Economics and Transnational Resistance to Ecocide’, in M. Hall, T. Wyatt, N. South, A. Nurse, G. Potter, & J. Maher (eds) Greening Criminology in the 21st Century. Surrey: Ashgate.
White, R. (2017) ‘Animal Abuse Resulting from Wildlife Habitat Destruction’, in P. Beirne, J. Maher & H. Pierpoint (eds) International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2016) ‘Eco-Justice and the Moral Fissures of Green Criminology’, in J. Jacobs & J. Jackson (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2016) ‘Inter-Species Violence: Humans and Harm to Animals’, in J. Stubbs & S. Tomsen (eds) Australian Violence. Sydney: Federation Press.
White, R. (2016) ‘Four Problems for Environment Courts in Dealing with Nonhuman Environmental Victims’, in T. Spapens, R. White & W. Huisman (eds) Environmental Crime in Transnational Context: Global issues in green enforcement and criminology. Surrey: Ashgate
Pink, G. & White, R. (2016) ‘Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime – Making it Matter’, in G. Pink & R. White (eds) Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Higgins, D. & White, R. (2016) ‘Collaboration at the Front Line: INTERPOL and NGOs in the Same NEST’, in G. Pink & R. White (eds) Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2015) ‘Imagining the Unthinkable: Climate Change, Ecocide and Children’, in J. Frauley (ed) C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination: Prospects for Creative Inquiry. Surrey: Ashgate.
Brisman, A., South, N. & White, R. (2015) ‘Toward a typology of environmental crime and social conflict’, in Brisman, A., South, N. & White, R. (eds) Environmental Crime and Social Conflict. Surrey: Ashgate.
White, R. (2015) ‘Climate Change, Ecocide and Crimes of the Powerful’, in G. Barak (ed) Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2015) ‘Crime and the Natural Environment’, Oxford Handbooks Online: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminological Theories. New York: Oxford University Press.
White, R. (2015) ‘Environmental Victimology and Ecological Justice’, in D. Wilson & S. Ross (eds) Crime, Victims and Policy: International Contexts, Local Experiences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2014) ‘Environmental Theft and Trafficking’, in N. Boister & R. Currie (eds) The Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2014) ‘Eco-Justice and Problem-Solving Approaches to
Environmental Crime and Victimisation’, in Spapens, T., White, R. & Kluin, M. (eds) Environmental Crime and Its Victims: Perspectives within Green Criminology. Surrey: Ashgate.
White, R. (2014) ‘Green Criminology’, in G. Bruinsma & D. Weisburd (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Springer.
White, R. (2014) ‘Environmental Regulation and Law Enforcement’, in G. Bruinsma & D. Weisburd (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Springer.
White, R. (2013) ‘What is to be Done about Environmental Crime?’, in B. Arrigo & H. Bersot (eds) The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2013) ‘The Conceptual Contours of Green Criminology’, in D. Westerhuis, R. Walters & T. Wyatt (eds) Emerging Issues in Green Criminology. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2013) ‘Environmental Harm, Ecological Citizenship and Transnational Environmental Activism’, in H. Maslin & S. Lockie (eds) Engaged Environmental Citizenship. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press/ANU e-press.
White, R. (2013) ‘Eco-Global Criminology and the Political Economy of Environmental Harm’ in N. South & A. Brisman (eds) Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2013) ‘Environmental Activism and Resistance to State-Corporate Crime’, in J. McCulloch & E. Stanley (eds) State Crime and Resistance. London: Routledge.
White, R. (2012) ‘The Foundations of Eco-Global Criminology’, in R. Ellefsen, R. Sollund & G. Larsen (eds) Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary Problems and Future Challenges. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
White, R. (2012) ‘Bio-Security and State-Corporate Interests’, in J. McCulloch & S. Pickering (eds) Borders and Transnational Crime: Pre-Crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an Age of Globalization. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, R. (2012) ‘The Criminology of Climate Change’, in R. White (ed) Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective. New York: Springer.
White, R. (2012) ‘Climate Change and Paradoxical Harm’, in S. Farrell, D. French & T. Ahmed (eds) Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change. London: Hart Publishing.
White, R. (2011) ‘Transnational Environmental Crime’, in M. Natarajan (ed) International Crime and Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
White, R. (2011) ‘Ecological Crime’, in C. Bryant (ed) The Handbook of Deviant Behaviour. New York: Routledge.
White, R. (2010) Transnational Environmental Crime and Eco-Global Criminology, in S. Shoham, P. Knepper & M. Kett (eds) International Handbook of Criminology. New York: Taylor and Francis.
White, R. (2010) ‘A Green Criminology Perspective’, in E. McLaughlin & T. Newburn (eds), The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory. London: Sage.
White, R. (2010) Globalisation and Environmental Harm, in R. White (ed) Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives. Devon: Willan Publishing.
White, R. (2007) Green Criminology and the Pursuit of Social and Ecological Justice, eds. P. Bierne & N. South, Issues in Green Criminology, Devon: Willan Publishing.
White, R. (2004) Criminology, Environmental Harm and Social Regulation, ed. R. White, Controversies in Environmental Sociology, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne: 275-292.