Search
Search Results
-
Using crime script analysis to elucidate the details of Amur tiger poaching in the Russian Far East
Poaching is the most direct threat to the persistence of Amur tigers. However, little empirical evidence exists about the modus operandi of the...
-
Systematic review of situational prevention methods for crime against species
Illegal activities concerning terrestrial species (TS) are responsible for a variety of health, environmental, economic and security issues. The...
-
Crime script analysis of the illegal sales of spiny-tailed lizards on YouTube
The oil derived from the spiny-tailed lizards (STLs) is illegally sold as an alternative medicinal aphrodisiac that is claimed to cure male sexual...
-
Construction of Harm and Victimhood
This chapter delves into the contentious area of harm and victims within the illegal wildlife trade. The often times conflicting perspectives from...
-
The Illegal Tiger Parts Trade
This chapter turns to explore the operation of seven distributing networks specialized in the illegal supply of tiger parts products. The focus of...
-
Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle
The illegal wildlife trade has increasingly been linked to organized crime in recent years. In particular, Chinese crime groups seem to be major...
-
The Criminalization of the Trade in Wildlife
In the twentieth century, the damage from unregulated trade in wildlife became transparent as many species became extinct or were on the brink of...
-
Organised crime and animals
This article provides an introduction to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘Organised Crime and Animals’. The special...
-
The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking
The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking—The illegal wildlife trade is nestled between law enforcement, conservation/environmental protection, and the...
-
Construction of Blame and Offending
Construction of Blame and Offending—Similar to defining and determining who is a victim within the complicated chain of wildlife trafficking,...
-
Contemporary Patterns
Contemporary Patterns—Wildlife trafficking is not isolated to the remote regions of the planet or specific to the areas with high biodiversity or a...
-
Differentiating criminal networks in the illegal wildlife trade: organized, corporate and disorganized crime
Historically, the poaching of wildlife was portrayed as a small-scale local activity in which only small numbers of wildlife would be smuggled...
-
Significance
Significance—The illegal wildlife trade presents a number of threats to a number of different aspects of societies and communities around the world....
-
Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European Eel
This paper integrates political ecology and green criminology to examine the critical endangerment of the European eel. Using a harms-based approach,...
-
The production of jaguar paste in Suriname: a product-based crime script
As apex predators, jaguars have significant cultural importance in the Americas and are a key species for monitoring the health of ecosystems....
-
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics
This paper examines aspects of the relationship between (1) the recently typified form of biodiversity crime, (2) information made available to the...
-
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs
Whilst drug trafficking has been a concern for several decades, wildlife trafficking has only fairly recently garnered international attention. Often...
-
Transnational Collaborations
Transnational Collaborations—Looking at each of the stakeholders in turn, leads into a discussion in this chapter of the transnational collaborations...
-
Reflecting on Wildlife Trafficking
The concluding chapter summarises the complicated nature of wildlife trafficking; from its pervasiveness to its hidden nature; from the supply side...
-
The Czech Rhino Connection: a Case Study of Vietnamese Wildlife Trafficking Networks’ Operations Across Central Europe
This article focuses on the trafficking segment of the illegal wildlife market, or more specifically on organised trafficking in rhino horns from...