The contribution of green criminology to the analysis of historical pollution

The aim of this contribution is to map out, from a criminological perspective, some contextual and theoretical scenarios that help to interpret and properly situate the phenomenon of “historical pollution” within wider cultural and scholarly frameworks. In describing three particular contexts (Love Canal, USA, Brescia, Italy, and Huelva, Spain), this criminological contribution could be useful in promoting increased knowledge and theoretical reflexivity about the “historical inheritance” of industrial development. By entering the boundaries of what can be defined as a hidden geography, the traditional boundaries of the criminological discipline will be breached, in order to inaugurate connections with and within green criminology.