Green Criminology: scientific production scenario

Abstract

Faced with the reflexive shifts around natural resources versus environmental damage, criminology emerges in the environmental sciences perceiving damages as an important area of criminological investigation. This study aimed to investigate the studies in green criminology, at a global level, through the survey of publications indexed to the database available on the Portal de Periódicos da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. The research has an exploratory nature in relation to its objectives and, bibliographical in relation to the procedures used. It was adopted as strategy for the collection of data bibliometric criteria for the elaboration of inventory of scientific productions. The results showed that: publications were available in 13 international databases, located in up to five different banks; The article was the most frequent document, representing 46% of the publications, available in 18 indexed journals; Three authors represented 55% of the number of publications, being characterized by multiple authorship, which predicts different perceptions of the object of analysis; There is no researcher directly or indirectly linked to the department of public administration of the countries among; Geographically, the discussions involved researchers from 11 developed countries; As for the temporal dynamics, there has been a progressive growth in the publications since 2008. It is concluded that the absence of studies in green criminology finds limits in the political-geographical questions which inhibits the diversity of spatial perceptions on the subject, reflecting in the maturation of the research with respect to the theory.