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Before taking this class, my perspective of gardening was simply that it was about growing plants. I never really thought about how something like gardening could connect to criminology. After spending time in the garden with my classmates, I have learned to see gardening differently. During the first few weeks, we worked together to prepare the soil, add water, and plant seeds that we hope will eventually grow into healthy plants. These simple tasks helped me better understand some of the main ideas within green criminology.<\/p>\n
One idea I learned from Lynch et al. (2017) is that green criminology challenges the traditional idea that criminology should only focus on crimes that break the law. Instead, green criminology also examines environmental harms and how human activities can damage ecosystems, animals, plants, and communities. Before working in the garden, I did not spend much time thinking about how much humans depend on healthy environments. While planting seeds, I realized that food production depends on natural systems working together. Healthy soil, clean water, and living organisms all play a role in allowing plants to grow. If these systems are damaged through pollution or other environmental harms, the effects can impact not only nature but also the people who rely on these resources.<\/p>\n
The garden also made me think differently about our food systems, which connects to Tourangeau and Fitzgerald\u2019s discussion of food crime and green criminology. They explain that green criminology allows us to examine food-related harms that may not always be considered illegal but can still negatively affect people, animals, and the environment. Before this experience, I usually only saw food as something that came from grocery stores without thinking about the process behind it. Planting our own seeds made me feel more connected to the process of growing food and helped me understand that food production depends on the health of the environment. This experience also made me think about how disconnected many people have become from nature. It is easy to forget about the amount of time, resources, and care that goes into producing food when we only see the final product. Gardening showed me that even small actions, like taking care of soil and plants, can help us better understand larger environmental issues.<\/p>\n
Even though we only started working on our garden, this experience has already changed the way I think about environmental harm. Preparing soil and planting seeds may seem like simple actions, but they represent larger ideas within green criminology. Gardening has shown me that humans are connected to the environment and that protecting ecosystems starts with recognizing how much we depend on them. Green criminology is not only about studying environmental crime is not only about understanding our relationship with nature and the systems that support life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Planting seeds\u00a0 What the garden taught me about green criminology Before taking this class, my perspective of gardening was simply that it was about growing plants. I never really thought about how something like gardening could connect to criminology. After spending time in the garden with my classmates, I have learned to see gardening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"featured_media":802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-published"],"splot_meta":{"author":"Jasvir","license":"","footer":"AI Acknowledgement Grammarly was used as a writing support tool to review grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. The ideas, reflections, and connections to course materials are my own. Lynch, M. J., Long, M. A., Stretesky, P. B., & Barrett, K. L. (2017). Green Criminology: Crime, Justice, and the Environment. Tourangeau, W., & Fitzgerald, A. J. (2018). Food Crime and Green Criminology."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}