On Expanding the Concept of Green Collar Crime: Some Considerations about Crimes and Harms of Food Producers

The moniker "green" used to construct and define offenses committed against the environment can be traced back, in part, to Frank and Lynch's (1992) considerations of corporate crime. Since then, a series of scholars have expanded, revised, and reconsidered the ways an innocent color on the spectrum of light between yellow and blue adds meaning and understanding to environmental crime in both a legal sense (Clifford 1998) and under the more expansive concept of harm (Lynch and Stretsky 2009; South and Brisman 2013).