Climate change mitigation should permeate all areas of government policy, however; the Criminal Justice System (CJS) currently remains absent from Australia’s means of climate change mitigation with exception to the legislative reporting of carbon emissions in the provision of governmental reports. Anthropogenic carbon emissions are the scientific drivers behind climate change and arise from the energy consumption and lifecycle of objects used in criminological contexts, potentially hindering climate change mitigation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to quantify the first carbon footprint of crime in Australia using the state of Victoria as a case study. In doing so, an Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis is undertaken to discern common criminal offence types and CJS expenditures release over 480,000 t of carbon emissions across Victoria. Homicide attributes the highest carbon footprint per-incident out of each criminal offence in Victoria. Whilst security, drug abuse and police activity attribute the three highest carbon footprints out of all criminal offence types and CJS expenditures in Victoria from 2016 to 2017. The CJS has currently been overlooked in terms of climate change mitigation, therefore, this article highlights various sources of carbon emissions and prospective pathways to target for climate change mitigation.

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维多利亚州犯罪的碳足迹

然而，减缓气候变化应该渗透到政府政策的所有领域；目前，澳大利亚减缓气候变化的手段仍然没有刑事司法系统 (CJS)，但在提供政府报告时对碳排放的立法报告除外。人为碳排放是气候变化背后的科学驱动因素，产生于犯罪学背景下使用的物体的能源消耗和生命周期，可能会阻碍气候变化的缓解。因此，本研究的目的是使用维多利亚州作为案例研究来量化澳大利亚犯罪的第一个碳足迹。在此过程中，进行了环境扩展的投入产出分析，以识别 480 多个常见的刑事犯罪类型和 CJS 支出，维多利亚州的碳排放量为 000 吨。在维多利亚州的每起刑事犯罪中，凶杀案的碳足迹最高。虽然在 2016 年至 2017 年维多利亚州所有刑事犯罪类型和 CJS 支出中，安全、药物滥用和警察活动的碳足迹最高。 CJS 目前在减缓气候变化方面被忽视，因此，本文重点介绍了各种来源碳排放量和减缓气候变化目标的预期途径。