a College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1127, USA b Center for Social and Humanities Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia c School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Lincoln, NE 68588-0561, USA d Department of Psychology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL 61455, USA e Institute o...

This article outlines the field of critical criminology and how its development was essential for green criminology. Through a personal trajectory, I use my experiences first as student later Professor Criminology at University Oslo an entry point. draw on involvement with European Group Study Deviance Social Control to explore has influenced Critical criminology, focus crimes powerful, is conc...