The environment in correctional. A sociology of judicial work

This article focuses on the penal treatment of offences against the environment through a sociological approach to judicial work. Based on medium-range environmental cases in terms of the seriousness of the damages, which are the most common in criminal courts, it studies the activities and interactions of the various protagonists involved in the trial. It deciphers the ways in which offences are framed during the procedure, involving challenges, alliance strategies and the search for agreement, putting into tension different types of professional cultures and routines, and revealing the more global functioning of penal institutions, where the environment occupies only a marginal place.