Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space

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 Lecturer in Criminology at York St John University, UK. He is a green criminologist and completed his PhD in 2018 at the University of Lincoln’s 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.

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