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Avi Brisman

Avi Brisman
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Discipline Cultural criminology, Critical criminology, Green criminology

Avi Brisman (born 1974) is an American criminologist and public intellectual [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6], who is known for his work in cultural criminology, critical criminology, and green criminology. He is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, and a Honorary Professor in the Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle.

Education

Brisman was awarded a BA degree in French and Studio Art from Oberlin College in 1997. In 2000, he completed a MFA in Painting at the Pratt Institute and a J.D with Honors at the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2003. In 2010, Brisman completed a M.A in Anthropology from Emory University, which progressed into a PhD completion in 2012.  

Career

Following his earlier legal experience in Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Brisman achieved several honours and awards from Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year Award from Eastern Kentucky University to Critical Criminologist of the Year Award [7] at the American Society of Criminology. From 2012 to 2015, Brisman became an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. In 2015, he progressed to Associate Professor and by 2020, he further progressed to Professor with tenure.

Throughout his academic career, Brisman also achieved affiliate appointments. In 2020, he became Adjunct Professor at the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, and in 2019 he was appointed International Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. By 2021, Brisman was promoted to Honorary Professor at the University of Newcastle.

Brisman has published in a broad range of academic journals and is best known for his works in cultural criminology, critical criminology, and green criminology. He has authored several books, each of which have been reviewed by various authors. Brisman, and his long-term collaborator Nigel South, published their 2014 book Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide, which was translated into Persian in 2017. His other works have also been translated into Arabic [8], Chinese [9], Italian, Slovenian, and Spanish [10]. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief for Critical Criminology: An International Journal.

Bibliography

Books (authored)

  • Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure: Abingdon, Oxon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2022
  • Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century: Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 (with Bill McClanahan, Nigel South and Reece Walters)
  • Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
  • Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide. Abingdon, Oxon, UK, and New York: Routledge, 2014 (with Nigel South)

Books (edited)

  • Introdução à criminologia verde: Perspectivas críticas, decoloniais e do Sul [Introduction to Green Criminology: Critical, Decolonial and Southern Perspectives]. São Paulo, Brasil: Tirant Brasil, 2022 (with Budó, Marília de Nardin, David Rodríguez Goyes, Lorenzo Natali, Ragnhild Sollund)
  • Green Criminology: Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Social Sciences. Basel, CH: MDPI, 2021 (with McClanahan, Bill)
  • Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology 2nd Edition. Abingdon, Oxon, UK, and New York: Routledge, 2020 (with Nigel South)
  • Introducción a la criminología verde. Conceptos para nuevos horizontes y diálogos socioambientales [Introduction to Green Criminology: Concepts for New Horizons and Socio-Environmental Dialogues]. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Temis S.A. and Universidad Antonio Nariño, Fondo Editorial, 2017 (with Mol, Hanneke, David Rodríguez Goyes, Nigel South)
  • Environmental Crime in Latin America: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (with Goyes, David Rodríguez, Hanneke Mol, and Nigel South)
  • The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. London and New York: Routledge, 2017 (with Eamonn Carrabine and Nigel South)
  • Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2015 (with Nigel South and Rob White)
  • Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. London and New York: Routledge, 2013 (with Nigel South)

Articles

  • “Ecocide and Khattam-Shud”. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 57 (3), 107-123, 2023
  • “A Convergence of Crises: COVID-19, Climate Change and Bunkerization”, Crime Media Culture, 19 (3), 327-344 (with Lam, Anita and Nigel South)
  • “Direct Action as Conceptual Art: An Examination of the Role of the Communiqué for Eco-Defense”, Radical Criminology,
  • “An Empirical Test of Techniques of Neutralization Regarding Polluting Behaviors in Rural Iran”, Crime, Law and Social Change, 78(1) 79-103, 2022 (with Tabar, Seyed Ahmad Mir Mohamad, Nigel South and Ali Akbar Majdi)
  • “Eco-crimes and Ecocide at Sea: Toward a New Blue Criminology”, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 66(4) 407-429, 2022 (with García Ruiz, Ascensión, and Nigel South)
  • “Immunity to Environmental Crime, Harm and Violence: An Ongoing Pandemic and a Possible Narrative Vaccine”, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 66(4) 451-469, 2022.
  • “Plastic Waste and the Environmental Crisis Industry”, Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 29 (2) 289-309, 2021 (with Smith, Oliver)
  • “Cultural criminology and narrative criminology’s shared interests. More than just criminological Verstehen”, Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, (10) 3, 14-34, 2020
  • “A criminology of extinction: Biodiversity, extreme consumption and the vanity of species resurrection.”, European Journal of Criminology, 17(6) 918-935, 2020 (with Nigel South)
  • “Conflict, Environment and Transition: Colombia, Ecology and Tourism after Demobilisation.”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 8(3) 74-88, 2019 (with McClanahan, Bill and Tatiana Sánchez Parra)
  • “The Fable of The Three Little Pigs, Climate Change and Green Cultural Criminology”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 8(1) 46-69, 2019
  • “Green Criminology and Environmental Crimes and Harms”. Sociology Compass, 13(1) e12650, 2019 (with Nigel South)
  • “Representing the “Invisible Crime” of Climate Change in an Age of Post-Truth”. Theoretical Criminology, 22(3): 468-91, 2018
  • “Southernizing green criminology: Human dislocation, environmental injustice and climate apartheid”, Justice, Power and Resistance, 2(1) 1-21, 2018 (with Nigel South and Reece Walters)
  • “绿色犯罪学的起源、发展和研究方向 (Lǜsè fànzuì xué de qǐyuán, fāzhǎn hé yánjiū fāngxiàng”, [Green Criminology: Origins, directions of development and topics of study]). 河南警察学院学报 (Hénán jǐngchá xuéyuàn xuébào, [ Journal of Henan Police College]), 26(4) 89-98, 2017 (with Nigel South) Translated by: 徐永胜(译) (Xúyǒngshèng (yì) [Xu Yongsheng]).
  • “The Role of Denial in the ‘Theft of Nature’: A Comparison of Biopiracy and Climate Change”, Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 25(3) 325–41 (with Wyatt, Tanya)
  • “On Narrative and Green Cultural Criminology”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 6(2) 64-77, 2017
  • “Tensions for Green Criminology”, Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 25(2) 311-23, 2017
  • “Water Security, Crime and Conflict”. Oxford Handbooks Online in Criminology and Criminal Justice. 2016 (with Bill McClanahan and Nigel South)
  • “Climate Change and Peacemaking Criminology: Ecophilosophy, Peace and Security in the “War on Climate Change”, Critical Criminology: An International Journal 23(4) 417-31, 2015 (with McClanahan, Bill)
  • “New ‘folk devils’, denials and climate change: Applying the work of Stanley Cohen to green criminology and environmental harm”, Critical Criminology: An International Journal 23(4), 449-60, 2015 (with Nigel South).
  • “Building, Staffing and Insulating: An Architecture of Criminological Complicity in the School-to-Prison Pipeline”. Social Justice, 41(4) 96-115, 2015 (with Schept, Judah and Tyler Wall)
  • “An Assessment of Tonry and Farrington’s Four Major Crime Prevention Strategies as Applied to Environmental Crime and Harm”, Varstvoslovje, Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, 17(2) 127-50, 2015 (with Nigel South)
  • “Life Stage Dissolution’, Infantilization and Anti-social Consumption: Implications for de-responsibilization, denial and environmental harm”. Young – Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 23(3): 209-21, 2015 (with Nigel South)
  • ““Multicolored” Green Criminology and Climate Change’s Achromatopsia”, Contemporary Justice Review, 18(2) 178-96, 2015
  • “Legal Cynicism Among Civically-Engaged Youth”, Varstvoslovje, Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, 16(4) 492-517, 2014 (with Swaner, Rachel) [11]
  • “Toward a green-cultural criminology of “the rural.” Critical Criminology: An International Journal 22(4) 479-94, 2014 (with Bill McClanahan, and Nigel South)
  • “Of Theory and Meaning in Green Criminology”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 3(2): 22-35, 2014
  • “Technological Drift and Green Machines: A Cultural Analysis of the Prius Paradox” CRIMSOC: the Journal of Social Criminology, Green Criminology Issue, Autumn 2013, 104-33 (with Kane, Stephanie C)

References

  1. ^ "Inter-News: The Newsletter Of The Division Of International Criminology Of The American Society Of Criminology Winter 2020" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Toward a More Elaborate Typology of Environmental Values: Liberalizing Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws and Policies" (PDF).
  3. ^ "The Sentencing Project: Disenfranchisement News & Updates - 10/11/07 | StoptheDrugWar.org". stopthedrugwar.org. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  4. ^ Interviewed on the following radio program: Piepkorn, Merrill. Hear It Now. Prairie Public Radio. KPPR-FM, Williston, 89.5; KMPR-FM, Minot, 88.9; KDPR-FM, Dickinson, 89.9; KCND-FM, Bismarck, 90.5; KPRJ-FM, Jamestown, 91.5; KUND-FM, Grand Forks, 89.3; KDSU-FM, Fargo, 91.9; KFJM-FM, Grand Forks, 90.7, aired Mar. 21, 2007
  5. ^ Quoted on the following radio program: Sweeney, Kate. Panhandling Bill Tabled. WABE-FM, Atlanta, 90.1, aired July 18&19, 2005
  6. ^ Sharpe, Levi (2015-05-26). "Brooklyn Youth Justice in the Hands of Teens". Youth Today. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  7. ^ "Critical Criminologist of the Year Award | ASC Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice". Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  8. ^ Brisman, Avi. 2011. Advancing Critical Criminology Through Anthropology. Western Criminology Review 12(2): 55-77.  Available at https://www.westerncriminology.org/documents/WCR/v12n2/Brisman.pdf.  (Reprinted in Arabic in 2012 in the journal, al-Thaqafah al-alamiyah (Kuwait, 1981-), Issue #167)
  9. ^ Brisman A, South N, 'Lusè fànzuì xué de qiyuán, fazhan hé yánjiu fangxiàng / Green Criminology: Origins, directions of development and topics of study', He'nan Gongan Gaodeng Zhuanke Xuexiao xuebao / Journal of Henan Police College, 26 89-98 (2017)
  10. ^ Budó, Marília de Nardin (2022-01-01). "Introdução à criminologia verde: perspectivas críticas, decoloniais e do sul". Introdução à criminologia verde: Perspectivas críticas, decoloniais e do sul.
  11. ^ yu, kunjie. "supp1-3163759.pdf". dx.doi.org. doi: 10.1109/tcyb.2022.3163759/mm1. Retrieved 2024-06-22.

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