Professor Nigel South
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Email
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Location
6.338, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Retired but Emeritus Professor in the Department - if you would like to get in touch - just email any time ... A student in the Department in the 1970s, he then studied for a PhD in the field of criminology at Middlesex, returning to Essex in 1990. He has held teaching and research posts in London and New York, and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Institute for Social Justice and Crime, University of Suffolk, and a Research Associate, Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. In 2013 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, and in 2022 received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the British Society of Criminology. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2014. From January 2015 to August 2021 he was Director of the Centre for Criminology. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Open Road, the drug and alcohol services charity. At the University of Essex, between 2005 and 2013, he served as Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Law and Management, and for Academic Partnerships, and prior to this served as Director of the Health and Social Services Institute, Head of the Department of Health and Human Sciences, and Director of Health Partnerships. He is European Editor of Critical Criminology, an Associate Editor of Deviant Behavior, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. He has previously served on the editorial boards of Sociology, the International Journal of Drug Policy, and the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. Latest book - Open Access - (with Meropi Tzanetakis, Eds.) is Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity, Emerald. In 2023-24 he is a member of the Technical Working Group on Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment, Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UNODC; and in 2024 is serving on the Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award Committee of the American Society of Criminology.
Qualifications
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BA MA (Essex)
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PhD (CNAA)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
environmental crime
green criminology and human rights
illegal and legal drug use and markets
crime, inequalities and citizenship
theoretical and comparative criminology
public health and community services
Current research
environmental and human rights and the concept of ecocide
resource conflicts and the commodification of water
cultural criminology,green criminology, consumption and waste
drug control and human rights
drugs, social supply and normalisation
Conferences and presentations
Contestation & resistance concerning eco- & health justice during the COVID pandemic: Two case studies in Italy and Colombia
Invited presentation, Invited talk, Criminology External Speaker Series, 15/5/2024
Contestation and resistance concerning eco-justice and health justice in Italy and Colombia: Two case studies
AnthroCrime 2022 – Anthropology of Crime and Security Conference, 18/5/2022
Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter: The case of the TAP pipeline in Italy
Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 18/9/2017
Teaching and supervision
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 3/7/2024
Degree subject: Criminology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 31/5/2024
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/8/2022
Degree subject: Criminology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 3/3/2021
Degree subject: Social Science
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/4/2020
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/11/2018
Degree subject: Criminology and Socio-Legal Research
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/4/2018
Degree subject: Criminology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/12/2017
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Master of Arts (by Dissertation)
Awarded date: 6/7/2017
Publications
Journal articles (97)
Goyes, DR., Hübschle, A., Okafor-Yarwood, I. and South, N., (2024). Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Africa. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 13 (1), i-vii
South, N., (2024). Praise for the article of the year 2023: Underwater noise pollution as environmental crime: a global problem in the Anthropocene. Kriminologie. 6 (2), 88-89
Alonso, AI. and South, N., (2024). Incorporating a One Health Approach Into the Study of Environmental Crimes and Harms: Towards a ‘One Health Green Criminology’. The British Journal of Criminology
Lam, A., South, N. and Brisman, A., (2023). A convergence of crises: COVID-19, climate change and bunkerization. Crime, Media, Culture. 19 (3), 327-344
Goyes, DR., South, N., Ramos Ñeñetofe, DT., Cuchimba, A., Baicué, P. and Abaibira, MA., (2023). ‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities. The Sociological Review. 71 (1), 105-125
Mir Mohamad Tabar, SA., South, N., Brisman, A. and Noghani, M., (2023). Illegal wildlife trades and ecological consequences: A case study of the bird market in Fereydunkenar, Iran. Deviant Behavior. 45 (1), 110-125
Goyes, DR., South, N., Scott, J. and Creagh, T., (2023). Rosa del Olmo Prize: Introductory Essay. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 12 (4), 1-10
South, N., Garcia Ruiz, A. and Brisman, A., (2022). Eco-crimes and Ecocide at Sea: Toward a new blue criminology. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 66 (4), 407-429
South, N. and Faroque, SO., (2022). Challenges, responses and collaborations concerning environmental crimes and harms in Bangladesh. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 66 (4), 389-406
Tabar, SAMM., South, N., Brisman, A. and Majdi, AA., (2022). An Empirical Test of Techniques of Neutralization Regarding Polluting Behaviors in Rural Iran. Crime, Law and Social Change. 78 (1), 79-103
South, N., (2022). Arguing with Stan and Revisiting Rosa: Some Thoughts on New Criminologies in a Changing World. Papers from the British Criminology Conference An Online Journal by the British Society of Criminology. 21
Goyes, DR., South, N., Abaibira, MA., Baicué, P., Cuchimba, A. and Ñeñetofe, DTR., (2021). Genocide and Ecocide In Four Colombian Indigenous Communities: The Erosion of A Way of Life and Memory. The British Journal of Criminology. 61 (4), 965-984
van Uhm, D., South, N. and Wyatt, T., (2021). Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs. Trends in Organized Crime. 24 (4), 425-446
Goyes, DR., South, N., Sollund, R. and de Carvalho, S., (2021). Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Southern Criminologies: Methods, Theories and Indigenous Issues”. Critical Criminology. 29 (3), 423-429
Faroque, S. and South, N., (2021). Water Pollution and Environmental Injustices in Bangladesh. International Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 10 (2)
Goyes, DR., Abaibira, MA., Baicué, P., Cuchimba, A., Ñeñetofe, DTR., Sollund, R., South, N. and Wyatt, T., (2021). Southern Green Cultural Criminology and Environmental Crime Prevention: Representations of Nature Within Four Colombian Indigenous Communities. Critical Criminology. 29 (3), 469-485
South, N., (2021). Green criminology - revisiting: Reflections, connections, horizons. Crimen. 12 (2), 113-131
Goyes, DR. and South, N., (2021). Indigenous Worlds and Criminological Exclusion: A Call to Reorientate the Criminological Compass. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 10 (3), 115-128
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2020). A Criminology of Extinction: Biodiversity, extreme consumption and the vanity of species resurrection. European Journal of Criminology. 17 (6), 918-935
McClanahan, B. and South, N., (2020). ‘All knowledge begins with the senses’ : Toward a sensory criminology. British Journal of Criminology. 60 (1), 3-23
South, N., (2020). Arcologies, Eco-shelters and Environmental Exemption: Constructing New Divisions and Inequalities in the Anthropocene. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 9 (2), 60-73
South, N. and Brisman, A., (2020). Remembering Roger Matthews (1948–2020) and Editors’ Introduction to “New Times” and “Environmental Crimes”. Critical Criminology. 28 (3), 303-307
García Ruiz, A. and South, N., (2020). Ruido, luz artificial y olor. Criminología verde y cultural aplicada al eco acústico-sensorial de los espacios urbanos. Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica. 18 (1), 1-28
Di Ronco, A., Allen-Robertson, J. and South, N., (2019). Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter: The case of the TAP pipeline. Crime, Media, Culture. 15 (1), 143-168
South, NG. and Brisman, A., (2019). Green Criminology and Environmental Crimes and Harms. Sociology Compass. 13 (1)
Goyes, DR. and South, N., (2019). Between ‘Conservation’ and ‘Development’: The Construction of ‘Protected Nature’ and the Environmental Disenfranchisement of Indigenous Communities. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 8 (3), 89-104
Goyes, DR., Sollund, R. and South, N., (2019). Special Issue. Towards Global Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from the Americas and Europe. Guest Editors' Introduction. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 8 (3), 1-5
García Ruiz, A. and South, N., (2019). Surrounded by sound: noise, rights and environments. Crime, Media, Culture. 15 (1), 125-141
García Ruiz, A. and South, N., (2019). El ruido silenciado en la Criminología y en el medio ambiente. Apuntes preliminares para una criminología acústico-sensorial. Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica. 17, 1-27
Brisman, A., South, NG. and Walters, E., (2018). Southernizing green criminology: Human dislocation, environmental injustice and climate apartheid. Justice, Power and Resistance. 2 (1), 1-21
Crook, M., Short, D. and South, N., (2018). Ecocide, Genocide, Capitalism and Colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments. Theoretical Criminology. 22 (3), 298-317
Beirne, P., Brisman, A., Sollund, R. and South, N., (2018). Editors’ introduction to the special issue: ‘For a green criminology’—20 years and onwards. Theoretical Criminology. 22 (3), 295-297
Jaensch, J. and South, N., (2018). Drug Gang Activity and Policing Responses in an English Seaside Town: ‘County Lines’, ‘Cuckooing’ and Community Impacts. Journal of Criminal investigation and Criminology Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo. 69 (4), 269-278
Goyes, DR. and South, N., (2017). Green Criminology Before ‘Green Criminology’: Amnesia and Absences. Critical Criminology. 25 (2), 165-181
Coomber, R., Moyle, L. and South, N., (2016). The normalisation of drug supply: The socialsupplyof drugs as the “other side” of the history of normalisation. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 23 (3), 255-263
South, N., (2016). Free Trade Agreements, Private Courts and Environmental Exploitation: Disconnected Policies, Denials and Moral Disengagement. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 5 (4), 45-45
Douvlis, K. and South, N., (2016). Police reform and social change in Greece: The development and merger of the gendarmerie and urban police forces. Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo. 67 (4), 289-299
Goyes, DR. and South, N., (2016). Land-grabs, Biopiracy and the Inversion of Justice in Colombia. The British Journal of Criminology. 56 (3), 558-577
Johnson, H., South, N. and Walters, R., (2016). The commodification and exploitation of fresh water: Property, human rights and green criminology. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. 44, 146-162
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2015). ‘Life-Stage Dissolution’, Infantilization and Antisocial Consumption. YOUNG. 23 (3), 209-221
South, N., (2015). Anticipating the Anthropocene and greening criminology. Criminology & Criminal Justice. 15 (3), 270-276
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2015). New “Folk Devils,” Denials and Climate Change: Applying the Work of Stanley Cohen to Green Criminology and Environmental Harm. Critical Criminology. 23 (4), 449-460
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2015). An Assessment of Tonry and Farrington?s Four Major Crime Prevention Strategies as Applied to Environmental Crime and Harm. Journal of Criminal Justice and Security (Varstvoslovje). 17 (2), 127-151
South, N., (2014). Green Criminology Environmental Crime Prevention and the Gaps between Law, Legitimacy and Justice. REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO. 65 (4), 373-381
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B. and South, N., (2014). Toward a Green-Cultural Criminology of “the Rural”. Critical Criminology. 22 (4), 479-494
Wyatt, T., Beirne, P. and South, N., (2014). Guest Editors' introduction: Green criminology matters. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 3 (2), 1-4
South, N., (2014). Green Criminology: Reflections, Connections, Horizons. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 3 (2), 5-20
Wyatt, T., Beirne, P. and South, N., (2014). Special Edition: Green Criminology Matters, Guest Editors’ Introduction. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 3 (2), 1-4
South, N., (2014). Green Criminology, Environmental Crime Prevention and the Gaps between Law, Legitimacy and Justice. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology (Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo). 65 (4), 373-381
South, N., (2014). Green criminology and organised environmental crimes. ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter. 11 (3), 2-3
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (2013). Green Criminology and Crimes of the Economy: Theory, Research and Praxis. Critical Criminology. 21 (3), 359-373
Higgins, P., Short, D. and South, N., (2013). Protecting the planet: a proposal for a law of ecocide. Crime, Law and Social Change. 59 (3), 251-266
Meško, G., South, N. and White, R., (2013). Editors’ introduction. Crime, Law and Social Change. 59 (3), 249-250
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (2013). Toxic State–Corporate Crimes, Neo-liberalism and Green Criminology: The Hazards and Legacies of the Oil, Chemical and Mineral Industries. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 2 (2), 12-26
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2013). A green-cultural criminology: An exploratory outline. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. 9 (2), 115-135
South, N., (2013). Environmental regulation: ambiguity, ambivalence and legislative balancing acts. Environmental Scientist. 22 (4), 20-22
Me?ko, G., South, N. and White, R., (2013). Editors? introduction to Special Issue: Green Criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change. 59 (3)
South, N. and Wyatt, T., (2011). Comparing Illicit Trades in Wildlife and Drugs: An Exploratory Study. Deviant Behavior. 32 (6), 538-561
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (2010). Green Criminology and Dirty Collar Crime. Critical Criminology. 18 (4), 251-262
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (2010). Critical Criminology and Crimes Against the Environment. Critical Criminology. 18 (4), 245-250
Pretty, J., Peacock, J., Hine, R., Sellens, M., South, N. and Griffin, M., (2007). Green exercise in the UK countryside: Effects on health and psychological well-being, and implications for policy and planning. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 50 (2), 211-231
Green, G., South, N. and Smith, R., (2006). “They Say That You Are a Danger But You Are Not”: Representations and Construction of the Moral Self in Narratives of “Dangerous Individuals”1. Deviant Behavior. 27 (3), 299-328
Green, G., Smith, R. and South, N., (2005). Court-based psychiatric assessment: Case for an integrated diversionary and public health role. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 16 (3), 577-591
South, N., Smith, R. and Green, G., (2005). Mental health, social order, system disorder. Criminal Justice Matters. 61 (1), 4-5
South, N., (2004). Book Review: Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy. Sociology. 38 (5), 1071-1073
South, N., (2004). Managing work, hedonism and ‘the borderline’ between the legal and illegal markets: Two case studies of recreational heavy drug users. Addiction Research & Theory. 12 (6), 525-538
South, N., (2004). Situating Community Initiatives Responding to Drugs, Alcohol and the Threatening ‘Other’: commentary and UK examples. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 11 (3), 207-211
South, N., (2004). Crime and Modernity. By John Lea (London: Sage, 2002, 213 pp. 17.99 pb). British Journal of Criminology. 44 (1), 144-147
(2002). Book Reviews. The British Journal of Sociology. 53 (1), 149-156
South, N., (2002). Cultures of Consumption and Social Exclusion. Criminal Justice Matters. 47 (1), 28-29
South, N., (2000). Drug diplomacy in the twentieth century: An international history.. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY. 40 (4), 759-761
Carrabine, E., Lee, M. and South, N., (2000). Social Wrongs and Human Rights: Some Recent Causes for Concern in Britain. Social Justice. 27 (2), 193-211
South, N., (1999). European drug policies and enforcement.. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY. 39 (4), 654-655
South, N., (1999). Sexed work: Gender, race and resistance in a brooklyn drug market. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 50 (1), 170-171
South, N., (1999). Regulating European drug problems: Administrative measures and civil law in the control of drug trafficking, nuisance and use.. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY. 39 (4), 654-655
South, N., (1999). Late-modern tensions not post-modern transformations. Criminal Justice Matters. 38 (1), 5-6
Eldridge, K. and South, N., (1998). Evidence-based practice. Slow-acting remedy.. The Health service journal. 108 (5605), 24-25
South, N., (1998). Drug misuse: Prevention, harm minimisation and treatment. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK. 28 (2), 293-294
Jamieson, R., South, N. and Taylor, I., (1998). Economic Liberalization and Cross-Border Crime: The North American Free Trade Area and Canada's Border with the U.S.A. Part II. International Journal of the Sociology of Law. 26 (3), 285-319
Jamieson, R., South, N. and Taylor, I., (1998). Economic Liberalization and Cross-Border Crime: The North American Free Trade Area and Canada's Border with the U.S.A. Part I. International Journal of the Sociology of Law. 26 (2), 245-272
SOUTH, N., (1998). A Green Field for Criminology?. Theoretical Criminology. 2 (2), 211-233
South, N. and Beirne, P., (1998). Editors' Introduction. Theoretical Criminology. 2 (2), 147-148
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (1998). Mercati delle droghe: Opportunità e limitazioni. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. 39 (4), 513-532
Braggins, J. and South, N., (1998). ISTD: where theory meets practice. Criminal Justice Matters. 34 (1), 6-8
South, N., (1997). Book Reviews : NICHOLAS DORN, JORGEN JEPSEN AND ERNESTO SAVONA (EDS) European Drug Policies and Enforcement London, Macmallan, 1996, 280 pp., £14.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 333 65221 5. Journal of European Social Policy. 7 (2), 167-170
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (1997). The Late-Modern City as a Bazaar: Drug Markets, Illegal Enterprise and the 'Barricades'. The British Journal of Sociology. 48 (1), 54-54
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (1997). The late-modern city as a bazaar: Drug markets, illegal enterprise and the 'barricades'. British Journal of Sociology. 48 (1), 35-70
SOUTH, N., (1996). Book Reviews. Sociology. 30 (4), 825-826
Martin, C., South, N. and Dorn, N., (1996). Drugs research in a prison setting. Criminal Justice Matters. 24 (1), 22-25
South, N., (1995). SO WHAT'S NEW?: Some trends in security and surveillance. Criminal Justice Matters. 20 (1), 17-17
South, N., (1993). REVIEWS. The British Journal of Criminology. 33 (4), 576-577
South, N., (1993). CRIMINAL JUSTICE vs PUBLIC HEALTH. Criminal Justice Matters. 12 (1), 10-10
South, N., (1992). REVIEWS. The British Journal of Criminology. 32 (3), 380-381
DORN, N. and SOUTH, N., (1990). DRUG MARKETS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. The British Journal of Criminology. 30 (2), 171-188
Dorn, N. and South, N., (1986). Criminology and Economics of Drug Distribution in Britain: Options for Control. Journal of Drug Issues. 16 (4), 523-535
Dorn, N. and South, N., (1985). Return of the topic. Health Education Journal. 44 (4), 208-212
Scraton, P. and South, N., (1984). The ideological construction of the hidden economy: Private justice and work-related crime. Contemporary Crises. 8 (1), 1-18
Books (36)
(2023). Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. Emerald Publishing Limited. 1800438680. 9781800438699
Carrabine, E., Cox, P., Cox, A., Crowhurst, I., Di Ronco, A., Fussey, P., Sergi, A., South, N., Thiel, D. and Turton, J., (2020). Criminology. A Sociological Introduction (Fourth edition). Routledge
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2020). Introduction. Routledge
(2020). Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2020). Preface to the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much. Springer. 1137529865. 9781137529862
(2018). Women and the Criminal Justice System. Springer International Publishing. 3319767747. 9783319767734
(2017). The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge. 1317593510. 9781317593515
Goyes, DR., Mol, H., Brisman, A. and South, N., (2017). Environmental Crime in Latin America The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land. Springer. 1137557052. 9781137557056
Rodríguez Goyes, D., Mol, H., South, N. and Brisman, A., (2017). Introducción a la Criminología Verde: Conceptos para la Comprensión de los Conflictos Socioambientales. Editorial Temis S.A
Brisman, A., Carrabine, E. and South, N., (2017). Preface
Hall, M., Wyatt, T., South, N., Nurse, A., Potter, G. and Maher, J., (2016). Greening Criminology in the 21st Century: Contemporary debates and future directions in the study of environmental harm. Routledge. 9781472467560
(2016). Environmental Crime and Social Conflict. Routledge. 1317142292. 9781317142294
Brisman, A., South, N. and White, R., (2015). Environmental Crime and Social Conflict. Ashgate. 978-1-4724-2220-0
Carrabine, E., Cox, P., Fussey, P., Hobbs, D., South, N. and Thiel, D., (2014). Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (3rd Edition). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 978-0-415-64080-0
South, N. and Weiss, RP., (2014). Comparing Prison Systems. Routledge
South, N. and Weiss, RP., (2014). Introduction: Crime, punishment and the "state of prisons" in a changing world
South, N., (2014). Foreword
(2013). Issues in Green Criminology. Willan
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2013). Green Cultural Criminology - Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide. Routledge Taylor & Francis. 978-0-415-63074-0
South, N. and Brisman, A., (2013). Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge Taylor & Franics
Carrabine, E., Cox, P., South, N., Lee, M., Plummer, K. and Turton, J., (2009). Criminology. Routledge
Carrabine, E., Lee, M., South, N., Cox, P. and Plummer, K., (2008). Criminology A Sociological Introduction, 2nd Edition. Routledge. 9780415464505
Beirne, P. and South, N., (2007). Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals. Willan Publishing. 978-1843922209
South, N. and Beirne, P., (2006). Green Criminology. Ashgate Press. 978-0-7546-2592-6
Pretty, JN., Sellens, MH., South, N. and Wilson, M., (2006). Guide to a healthy planet. University of Essex. 1904059422
Coomber, R. and South, N., (2004). Drug Use in Cultural Contexts 'Beyond the West': Tradition, Change and Post-colonialism. Free Association Books. 978-1853437434
Carrabine, E., Iganski, P., Lee, M., South, N., Plummer, K. and Turton, J., (2004). Criminology: A Sociological Introduction. Routledge. 9780415640787
Carrabine, E., Cox, P., Lee, M., Plummer, K. and South, N., (2004). Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (First edition). Routledge. 9780415281683
Carrabine, E., Cox, P., Lee, M. and South, N., (2002). Crime in Modern Britain. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-924611-3
South, N., (1999). Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life. Sage. 9780761952350
Weiss, RP. and South, N., (1998). Comparing Prison Systems: Toward an International and Comparative Pedagogy. Gordon and Breach Publishers. 9789057005114
Samson, C. and South, N., (1996). The Social Construction of Social Policy: Methodologies, Racism, Citizenship and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-0333630891
Ruggiero, V. and South, N., (1995). EuroDrugs: Drug Use, Markets and Trafficking in Europe. UCL Press. 9781134213382
Dorn, N., Ribbens, J. and South, N., (1995). Coping with a Nightmare: Family Feelings about Long-Term Drug Use (2nd edition). Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence with Adfam National. 978-0948830914
Dorn, N., Henderson, S. and South, N., (1991). AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care. Falmer Press. 9781135427795
Book chapters (94)
Goyes, DR. and South, N., (2024). Bioprospecting and biopiracy. In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing. 23- 25. 9781803921037
South, N., (2024). Afterword. In: Criminological Connections, Directions, Horizons. Routledge. 253- 262
Natali, L., South, N., McClanahan, B. and Brisman, A., (2023). Towards Visual and Sensory Methodologies in Green Cultural Criminology. In: Qualitative Research in Criminology. Springer International Publishing. 141- 160. 9783031184000
Hewamanne, S. and South, N., (2023). Women and the structural violence of ‘fast-fashion’ global production: victimization, poorcide and environmental harms. In: Gendering Green Criminology. Bristol University Press. 978-1529229639
Davies, T. and South, N., (2023). Policing UK Street Gangs. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK. Springer International Publishing. 411- 434. 9783030996574
Coomber-Moore, J., South, N., Coomber, R. and Moyle, L., (2023). ‘Steroid holidays' as drug tourism and deviant leisure. In: Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets. Routledge. 188- 207
Craciunescu, N. and South, N., (2023). Cultural politics, reciprocal relations, and operational agility in online drug markets. In: Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. 95- 107
Tzanetakis, M. and South, N., (2023). Introduction: The digital transformations of illicit drug markets as a process of reconfiguration and continuity. In: Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. 1- 12
Thiel, D. and South, N., (2022). Criminal Ignorance, Environmental Harms and Processes of Denial. In: Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Editors: Gross, M. and McGoey, L., . Routledge. 334- 344. 9780367608064
Brisman, A., Ruiz, AG., McClanahan, B. and South, N., (2021). Exploring sound and noise in the urban environment. In: Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space. Routledge. 15- 29
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2020). A short conclusion concerning a questionable future. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge. 677- 680
Brisman, A., South, N. and Walters, R., (2020). Global environmental divides and dislocations. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge. 187- 204
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2020). Toward a green cultural criminology of the South. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge. 624- 637
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2020). The growth of a field. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Routledge. 39- 51
Carrabine, E., Lee, M. and South, N., (2020). Re-thinking public criminology: Politics, paradoxes, and challenges. In: Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies. 21- 33
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2020). The Politics of Water Rights: Scarcity, Sovereignty and Security. In: Water, Governance, and Crime Issues. Springer International Publishing. 17- 29. 9783030447977
Greer, S. and South, N., (2019). The criminal informant: police management, supervision and control. In: Invading the Private. Routledge. 31- 45
Brisman, A., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Climate Apartheid and Environmental Refugees. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. Springer International Publishing. 301- 321. 9783319650203
(2018). Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology. In: Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology: Second Edition. Editors: Dekeseredy, WS. and Dragiewicz, M., . Routledge. 132- 142
South, NG. and Brisman, A., (2018). Perspectives on wildlife crime: the convergence of ‘green’ and ‘conservation’ criminologies. In: Wildlife Crime: From Theory to Practice. Editors: moreto, W., . Temple University Press.
South, NG. and Brisman, A., (2018). Green criminology, zemiology, and comparative and inter-relational justice in the Anthropocene era. In: Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm. Editors: Boukli, A. and Kotzé, J., . Palgrave. 203- 221. 9783319763118
South, NG. and Brisman, A., (2018). Autosarcophagy in the Anthropocene and the Obscenity of an Epoch. In: Criminology and the Anthropocene. Editors: Shearing, C. and Holley, C., . Routledge
Brennan, K., Milne, E., South, N. and Turton, J., (2018). Women and the Criminal Justice System—Moving Beyond the Silo. In: Women and the Criminal Justice System. Springer International Publishing. 1- 11. 9783319767734
South, N., (2018). Postmodern and constitutive criminologies. In: The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge. 352- 356
Carrabine, E. and South, N., (2018). Pathology. In: The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge. 33- 37
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2018). Green criminology. In: The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge. 297- 300
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Introduction. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 1- 12. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Too Little: Water and Access. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 53- 90. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Too Important: Water and Resistance. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 183- 213. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Too Dirty: Water and Pollution. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 13- 52. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Too Costly: Water and Privatization. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 113- 147. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Conclusion. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 215- 222. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Too Threatened: Water and Climate Change. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 91- 112. 9781137529855
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B., South, N. and Walters, R., (2018). Too Insecure: Water and Security. In: Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 149- 182. 9781137529855
(2017). The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice. In: The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice. Editors: McGuire, MR. and Holt, TJ., . Routledge. 310- 324
South, N., (2017). Environmental Crimes and Harms: a Green Criminology Approach and Socio-legal Challenges. Editors: Bergin, T. and Orlando, E., . Routledge. 978-1138936638
South, NG., (2017). Monstrous nature: A meeting of gothic, green and cultural criminologies. In: Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Editors: Brown, M. and Carrabine, E., . Routledge. 553- 566. 9781315713281
(2017). Transnational Environmental Crime. In: Transnational Environmental Crime. Editors: White, R., . Routledge. 233- 244
South, N., (2017). A green field for criminology?: A proposal for a perspective. In: Green Criminology. 427- 449
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2017). Food, Crime, Justice and Security: (Food) Security for Whom?. In: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics. Springer International Publishing. 185- 200. 9783319571737
South, N., (2016). Green Criminology and Brown Crime: Despoliation, Disposal and De-manufacturing in Global Resource Industries. In: Hazardous Waste and Pollution. Springer International Publishing. 11- 25. 9783319180809
Hall, M., (2016). Greening Criminology in the 21st Century. In: Greening Criminology in the 21st Century: Contemporary Debates and Future Directions in the Study of Environmental Harm. Editors: . Routledge. 219- 232. 9781472467560
(2016). Research Ethics in Criminology. In: Research Ethics in Criminology: Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions. Editors: Cowburn, M., Gelsthorpe, L. and Wahidin, A., . Routledge. 166- 182. 9781138803695
South, N., (2016). The contested planet: global green criminology, environmental crime and the world. In: Environmental Crime in Transnational Context: Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology. Editors: Spapens, T., White, R. and Huisman, W., . Routledge. 978-1472469625
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B. and South, N., (2016). Fractured Earth, Forced Labour: A Green Criminological Analysis of Rights and the Exploitation of Landscapes and Workers in Rural Contexts. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology. Editors: Donnermeyer, JF., . Routledge. 9781138799745
Sergi, A. and South, N., (2016). 'Earth, Water, Air, and Fire': Environmental Crimes, Mafia Power and Political Negligence in Calabria. In: Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control Essays in Honor of Professor Dick Hobbs. Editors: Antonopoulos, GA., . Springer. 85- 100. 9783319316062
Coomber, R., Moyle, L. and South, N., (2016). Reflections on three decades of research on 'social supply' in the UK. In: Friendly Business International Views on Social Supply, Self-Supply and Small-Scale Drug Dealing. Editors: Werse, B. and Bernard, C., . Springer. 13- 28. 978-3-658-10328-6
Brisman, A., McClanahan, B. and South, N., (2016). Water Security, Crime and Conflict. In: Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Editors: Tonry, M., . Oxford University Press (OUP)
Hall, M., Wyatt, T., South, N., Nurse, A., Potter, G. and Maher, J., (2016). Eco-Crime and fresh water. In: Greening Criminology in the 21st Century: Contemporary debates and future directions in the study of environmental harm. Editors: Johnson, H., South, N. and Walters, R., . Routledge. 9781472467560
South, N., (2016). The Contested Planet: Global Green Criminology and Environmental Crime in Transnational Context. In: Environmental Crime in Transnational Context: Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology. 9- 26
McClanahan, B., Brisman, A. and South, N., (2015). Privatization, pollution and power: A green criminological analysis of present and future global water crises. In: The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful. 223- 234. 9780415741262
Johnson, H., South, N. and Walters, R., (2015). Environmental Crime, Human Rights and Green Criminology. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights. Editors: Weber, L., Fishwick, E. and Marmo, M., . Routledge. 210- 219. 9781315679891
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2015). State-corporate environmental harms and paradoxical interventions: Thoughts in honour of Stanley Cohen. In: Green Harms and Crimes - Critical Criminology in a Changing World. Editors: Sollund, RA., . Palgrave MacMillan. 27- 42. 9781137456267
Brisman, A., South, N. and White, R., (2015). Toward a criminology of environment-conflict relationship. In: Environmental Crime and Social Conflict. Editors: Brisman, A., South, N. and White, R., . Ashgate. 1- 38. 978-1-4724-2220-0
Coomber, R. and South, N., (2014). Fear and Loathing in Drugs Policy: Risk, Rights and Approaches to Drug Policy and Practice. In: Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 235- 248. 9783642409561
South, N., (2014). Foreword: Seeing the Invisible. In: Invisible Crimes and Social Harms. Editors: Davies, P., Francis, P. and Wyatt, T., . Palgrave MacMillan. 9781137347831
South, N., Eman, K. and Meško, G., (2014). History of Green Criminology. In: Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Editors: Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D., . Springer. 2172- 2181. 978-1-4614-5689-6
South, N., Brisman, A. and Mcclanahan, WW., (2014). Green Criminology. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Editors: Wright, R., . Oxford University Press
(2013). Global Environmental Harm. In: Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives. Editors: White, R., . Willan. 228- 247. 9781843927983
(2013). New Directions in Crime and Deviancy. In: New Directions in Crime and Deviancy. Editors: Winlow, S. and Atkinson, R., . Routledge. 99- 110
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2013). Conclusion: The planned obsolescence of planet Earth? How green criminology can help us learn from experience and contribute to our future. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Editors: South, N. and Brisman, A., . Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 159- 161. 978-1-13-884669-2
South, N., Brisman, A. and Beirne, P., (2013). A Guide to a Green Criminology. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Editors: South, N. and Brisman, A., . Routledge Taylor & Franics. 159- 161. 978-1-13-884669-2
South, N., Brisman, A. and Beirne, P., (2013). A Guide to a Green Criminology. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Editors: South, N. and Brisman, A., . Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 978-1-13-884669-2
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2013). Introduction: Horizons, issues and relationships in green criminology. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Editors: South, N. and Brisman, A., . Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 159- 161. 978-1-13-884669-2
South, N. and Brisman, A., (2013). Resource Wealth, Power, Crime, and Conflict. In: Emerging Issues in Green Criminology: Exploring Power, Justice and Harm. Editors: Walters, R., Westerhuis, D. and Wyatt, T., . Palgrave. 57- 71. 9781137273987
South, N. and White, R., (2013). The antecedents and emergence of a 'Green' Criminology. In: Annual Meeting Presidential Papers ? Selected Papers from the Presidential Panels: Expanding the Core: Neglected Crimes, Groups, Causes and Policy Approaches. Editors: Agnew, R., . American Society of Criminology
South, N. and Brisman, A., (2013). Introduction: Horizons, Issues and Relationships in Green Criminology. In: Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Editors: South, N. and Brisman, A., . Routledge Taylor & Franics. 159- 161
(2013). The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity: transnational crime, social exclusion, victims and rights. In: Global Environmental Harm. Willan. 246- 266
Beirne, P. and South, N., (2012). Greening Criminology. In: Greening the Academy. SensePublishers. 23- 32
Fussey, P. and South, N., (2012). Heading Toward a New Criminogenic Climate: Climate Change, Political Economy and Environmental Security. In: Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective. Springer New York. 27- 40. 9781461436393
South, N., (2012). Climate Change, Environmental (In)Security, Conflict and Crime. In: Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change. Editors: Farrall, S., Ahmed, T. and French, D., . Hart. 97- 112. 9781849461863
Byrne, P. and South, N., (2012). Environmental justice, animal rights and the greening of criminology. In: Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts. Editors: Fassbinder, SD., Nocella, AJ. and Kahn, R., . Sense. 9789462090996
(2011). European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability. In: European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability. Editors: Gobert, J. and Pascal, A-M., . Routledge. 161- 174. 9781138019874
South, N., (2011). Nature, difference and the rejection of harm: Expanding the agenda for green criminology. In: Global Harms: Ecological Crime and Speciesism. 187- 200
Lee, M. and South, N., (2009). Drugs. In: The Sage Dictionary of Policing. Editors: Wakefield, A. and Flemong, J., . Sage. 94- 96. 9781412930987
South, N., (2009). Ecocide, Conflict and Climate Change: challenges for criminology and the research agenda in the 21st century. In: Eco-crime and justice: essays on environmental crime. Editors: Kangaspunta, K. and Marshall, IH., . UNICRI
South, N., (2008). Nature, difference and the rejection of harm: Expanding the agenda for green criminology. In: Global Harms: Ecological Crime and Speciesism. 187- 200. 9781604567700
Lee, M. and South, N., (2008). Drugs Policing. In: The Handbook of Policing (second edition). Editors: Newburn, T., . Willan. 497- 521. 9781843925002
South, N., (2007). Inequalities, Crime, and Citizenship. In: The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 350- 371. 9780631231547
South, N., (2007). The Corporate Colonisation of Nature: Bio-Prospecting, Bio-Piracy and the Development of Green Criminology. In: Issues in Green Criminology: confronting harms against environments, humanity and other animals. Editors: Beirne, P. and South, N., . Willan Publishing. 230- 247. 1-84392-219-3. 978-1-84392-219-3
(2005). AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care. In: AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care. Editors: Dorn, N., Henderson, S. and South, N., . Routledge. 93- 99
Coomber, R. and South, N., (2004). Drugs, Cultures and Controls in Comparative Perspective. In: Drug Use in Cultural Contexts 'Beyond the West': Tradition, Change and Post-colonialism. Editors: Coomber, R. and South, N., . Free Association Books. 13- 26. 978-1853437434
South, N., (2003). Policing and Drugs. In: The Handbook of Policing. Editors: Newburn, T., . Willan Publishing. 421- 442. 9781843920199
South, N., (2002). Drugs, Alcohol and Crime. In: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Editors: Maguire, M., Morgan, R. and Reiner, R., . Oxford University Press (OUP). 914- 946. 978-0199249374
South, N., (2001). The Police and Policing. In: The New British Politics. Editors: Budge, I., Crewe, I., McKay, D. and Newton, K., . Longman. 505- 535. 9780582418387
South, N., (1999). Debating Drugs and Everyday Life: Normalisation, Prohibition and 'Otherness'. In: Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life. Editors: South, N., . Sage. 1- 15. 9780761952350
South, N., (1998). Corporate and State Crimes Against the Environment: Foundations for a Green Perspective in European Criminology. In: The New European Criminology. Editors: Ruggiero, V., South, N. and Taylor, I., . Routledge. 443- 461. 9781134714803
South, N., (1997). Late-Modern Criminology: 'Late' as in 'Dead' or 'Modern' as in 'New'?. In: Sociology After Postmodernism. Editors: Owen, D., . Sage. 81- 102. 9780803975156
Samson, C. and South, N., (1996). Introduction: Social Policy Isn't What it Used to Be: The Social Construction of Social Policy in the 1980s and 1990s. In: The Social Construction of Social Policy: Methodologies, Racism, Citizenship and the Environment. Editors: Samson, C. and South, N., . Macmillan. 1- 16. 978-0333630891
South, N., (1995). Drug Markets and Law Enforcement. In: Professional Criminals. Editors: Hobbs, D., . International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology. 25- 42. 9781855214149
South, N., (1994). Drugs: Control, Crime and Criminological Studies. In: Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Editors: Maguire, M., Morgan, R. and Reiner, R., . Oxford University Press (OUP). 393- 440. 978-0198762416
South, N., (1993). After Mr Bennett and Mr Bush: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Drug Control. In: Global Crime Connections: Dynamics and Control. Editors: Pearce, F. and Woodiwiss, M., . Macmillan. 72- 90. 9780802028389
South, N., (1992). Moving Murky Money: Drug Trafficking, Law Enforcement and the Pursuit of Criminal Profits. In: Offenders and Victims: Theory and Policy. Editors: Farrington, DP. and Walklate, S., . British Society of Criminology and the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency. 167- 193. 978-0901541277
Dorn, N. and South, N., (1991). Drugs, Crime and Law Enforcement: Some Issues for Europe. In: Crime in Europe. Editors: Heidensohn, F. and Farrell, M., . Routledge. 72- 83. 978-0415050722
Conferences (4)
Brisman, A. and South, N., (2016). WATER, INEQUALITIES AND INJUSTICE: SOCIAL DIVISIONS, RACISM AND COLONIALISM - PAST AND PRESENT
White, R. and South, N., (2013). The Future of Green Criminology: Horizon Scanning and Climate Change
Akhtar, S. and South, N., (2000). "Hidden from heroin's history": Heroin use and dealing within an English Asian community - A case study
SOUTH, N., (1994). Privatizing Policing in the European Marker: Some Issues for Theory, Policy, and Research
Other (2)
South, N., (2015).Environmental Justice,Scottish Justice Matters
South, N., (2001).Idle Hands' [Thematic Review on Drug Treatment and Unemployment](1),Drug and Alcohol Findings
Grants and funding
2020
Mining, gender and social inequality in Colombian Indigenous communities.
University of Essex (GCRF)
2016
Promoting Post Graduate Teaching and Research on Human Rights and Drugs
Open Society Foundation