Economic and Environmental Justice
The Environment Hub of CPSVP focuses on the overlooked relationships between violence, conflict, crime and the environment. Armed conflict, for instance, is often driven by a quest for natural resources, while preparations for war can often decimate environments where munitions testing takes place. Unpacking such complex relationships is the mission of the Environment Hub, where scholars deploy a wide range of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks to shed light on the nexus of ecology and society. Current Hub projects include an examination of environmental justice concerns surrounding incarceration and detainment, the online trade of endangered species, and the ecological impacts of our increasing dependency on technology.
Greenberg, Pierce and Robert Todd Perdue. 2024. “Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality.” Social Problems. 72(2), 783-801.
Perdue, Robert Todd. 2024. “Disposable People in Toxic Texas: ICE Detention Centers and Federal Prisons as Pollution Outliers.” In, Exploitation and Criminalization at the Margins: The Hidden Toll on Unvalued Lives. Edited by Taryn VanderPyl and Shanell Sanchez. Lexington Books.
Perdue, Robert Todd. 2024. “Fighting Ecoterrorism or Fighting Dissent? State and Corporate Actors as Perpetrators of Hate Crimes” In, Research Handbook on Hate and Hate Crimes. Edited by James Hawdon and Matthew Costello. Edward Elger Publishing.
Cavazos, Robert and Robert Todd Perdue. 2024. “Who’s Draining the Ogallala Aquifer? Exploring the Consequences of Incomplete Data.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 1-7.
Perdue, Robert Todd. 2023. “Trashing Appalachia: Coal, Prisons and Whiteness in a Region of Refuse.” Punishment & Society 25(1), 21-41.
Perdue, Robert Todd. 2021. “Who Needs the Dark Web? Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 46(6), 1006-1017.
Perdue, Robert Todd. 2021. “Corporate Violence in the Central Appalachian Coal Industry: From Roots to Repercussions.” Critical Criminology 29, 897-913.
Perdue, Robert Todd. 2018. “Linking Environmental and Criminal Injustice: The Mining to Prison Pipeline in Central Appalachia.” Environmental Justice 11(5): 177-182.
Dr. Perdue is currently editing a volume focused on the relationships between incarceration and the environment.