Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.
Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.
This book is the first edited collection of chapters focused on how to prepare for, address and respond to, instances of criminal and harmful behaviour in (and related to) outer space. It also considers what criminal justice might look like in outer space, and how the important arena of ethics might help play a pivotal role in helping overcome problems related to crime and crime control. The book comprises twenty-six chapters from authors spanning six continents, giving a truly international dimension to the first anthology relating to the intersection of space criminology, space criminal justice and space ethics. It is this international dimension that is essential to the development of a holistic understanding of crime, criminal justice and ethics in outer space.
Exploring recent topics, including the dark origin of space exploration, expansion of satellite industries, space tourism, asteroid mining, and human-settlement on the Moon and Mars, the book will appeal to space professionals, and students and researchers working in criminology, critical security studies, law, and ethics.
Introduction Exploring the Final Frontier of Criminology, Criminal
Justice and Ethics Scholars Together in Outer Space
1. Scientific Crimes
Against Humanity for all Humankind: Accounting for the Space Legacy of Aryan
Criminology and Nazi Aerospace Science
2. What on Earth is Happening in Outer
Space? Questioning the Space Oligarchy
3. Imagining Space Crime: Using
Virtual Reality to Advance our Understanding of Space Crime
4. Resource
Exploitation in Outer Space: The Potential of Crime Scripting as a Prevention
Tool for Environmental Space Crime
5. Cynical Actors in the Age of
Transparency: Illegal Warfare and State Propaganda in a Glass House
6. A
Space Brutality: Satellite-Enabled Perpetration of Mass Image-Based Sexual
Violence
7. Space Victimology: Out of the Dark and into the Light
8.
Connecting the Analogue Dots: Insights into the Future of Space Crime,
Criminal Justice, and Ethics Now
9. If there was an observer on Mars, they
would probably be amazed that we have survived this long: Environmental
Decline, Elite Escapes, and Space Colonies
10. Harnessing Science Fiction to
Reimagine Criminal Justice in Space: Opportunities and Risks
11. Defining
Space Debris Policy: A Perspective from Rawls Veil of Ignorance
12.
Atmospheric Justice: Visualizing Atmospheric Harm by the Global Space
Exploration Industry using Treadmill of Production Theory
13. Spaceport of
Call: Developing a Geopolitical-Criminological Perspective on Spaceport
Crime and Policing
14. Towards International Criminalization for Orbital
Debris Pollution
15. The Legal Framework for Policing Outer Space
16.
Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in International Law and Environmental
Space Crime
17. Countering Sexual Harassment and Assault in Outer Space:
Contributions from a Criminological Perspective
18. Punishment for Offending
in Space: The Ethics of Incarceration
19. The Problem with the Placement of
Space Infrastructures: The Complex Politics of Paving the Way to Space
20.
The Borderlands between Law and Ethics: Jurisdiction, Enforcement, and
Teleology
21. The Ethics of Outer Space Intelligence Operations
22. Respect
for the Non-Living in Early-Stage Space Expansion Conclusion A New Hope?
The Future of Researching Space Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics
Yarin Eski is an Associate Professor in Public Administration, doing research on and at the intersection of criminology, governance and policing. He is co-director of the Resilience, Security and Civil Unrest (ReSCU) R&I Lab at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. His research focuses on maritime crime and policing, as well as arms dealing, genocide and space crime (control).
Jack Lampkin is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at York St John University, UK. He is a green criminologist and completed his PhD in 2018 at the University of Lincolns Law School (UK) where he studied the environmental and social impacts of unconventional hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production purposes. Jack is interested in all things relating to human interactions with outer space and the impact this has on both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial environs.
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