Rate My Professor Avi Brisman

Avi Brisman is an Honorary Professor in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and also serves as a Conjoint Associate Professor at Newcastle Law School. He holds the position of Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY, USA), Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), and University Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Newcastle. Brisman earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Emory University, J.D. from the University of Connecticut, M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, and B.A. from Oberlin College. His research specializations include green criminology, critical criminology, cultural criminology, narrative criminology, biodiversity loss, climate change, environmental crime, environmental resistance, environmental rights, environmental security, pollution, legal anthropology, and visual criminology.

Brisman has authored and edited numerous influential publications in green criminology and related fields. Key books include Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century: Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, co-authored with Bill McClanahan, Nigel South, and Reece Walters); Environmental Crime in Latin America: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, co-edited with David Rodríguez Goyes, Hanneke Mol, and Nigel South); Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide (Routledge, 2014, co-authored with Nigel South); Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology (2013, co-edited with Nigel South; second edition, 2020); and Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure (Routledge, 2022). His works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Persian, Slovenian, and Spanish. In 2015, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology. Brisman has served as Editor-in-Chief of Critical Criminology: An International Journal (immediate past), Associate Editor of Crime Media Culture, and Book Review Editor of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.