A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447356284 ISBN 13: 9781447356288

Publisher: Policy Press, 2019

Synopsis

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.

In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and food democracy, they problematize current food systems and criticize their underlying ideologies.

Bringing together the best contemporary research in this area, they argue for the importance of thinking criminologically about food and propose radical solutions to the realities of unjust food systems.

About this title

About the Authors

Allison Gray is a PhD Candidate at the University of Windsor. She pursues a diverse range of research interests across the areas of food studies, green criminology, theoretical sociology, and the intersection of humanity, nonhuman animals, and the environment. She is especially keen on studying the sociology of food choice.

Ronald Hinch, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. His research interests and publications include food crime, green criminology, critical criminology, criminological theory and violent crime with a special interest in serial homicide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447356284
• ISBN 13: 9781447356288
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 458
• Editor: Gray Allison, Hinch Ronald