This book provides an overview of wildlife crime. It will interest students and scholars of wildlife crime, wildlife management and conservation, environmental crime, and green criminology more widely. It will also be of use to practitioners and policymakers involved in developing and implementing strategies to reduce wildlife crime.
The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime provides a comprehensive and state of the art overview of wildlife crime in its various forms.
The effects of wildlife crime and over-exploitation are contributing to the possible extinction of one million species. These activities also harm human and non-human animals, ecosystems and communities. To understand and tackle these issues, this handbook presents critical approaches to the study of wildlife crime grounded in empirical, methodological, and conceptual perspectives. Curated for an international audience of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers its contributors are drawn from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and geographies. The handbook addresses recognised challenges associated with wildlife crime, including transnational security, the role of corporations, legislative frameworks and enforcement strategies, as well as broader concerns related to conservation, sustainable development, socio-environmental harm, and well-being. Importantly, it also delves into emerging areas, such as gender dynamics, digital markets and social media, social inequality and the marginalisation of vulnerable groups, and moral philosophy and ethics. This handbook equips readers to understand and respond to the multifaceted challenges of wildlife crime in the 21st century.
The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime will be of great interest to students and scholars of wildlife crime, wildlife management and conservation, environmental crime, and green criminology more widely. The book will also be of use to practitioners and policymakers involved in developing and implementing strategies to reduce wildlife crime.
1. Introduction Beyond boundaries: foundations and frameworks in
critical wildlife crime studies PART I Wildlife crimes interfaces and
interconnections
2. Interfaces of il/legality in European wildlife trade
3.
Wildlife crimes, harms, and the role of masculinity in legal and illegal
hunting
4. Understanding cultural use and spirituality: Iion body part trade
in southern Africa
5. Corporations and wildlife crime: causes, contexts, and
consequences
6. Camel races tradition, sport, and politics
7. Organised
crime and wildlife trafficking PART II Critical approaches, methods, and
reflections on researching wildlife crime
8. Zooming-in, zooming-out: closing
the gap between practices in the wildlife trade and associated theories
9. A
framework for conducting research on consumer demand for high-value wildlife
products in Asia
10. Estimating wildlife crime prevalence: quantitative
methods and ethical considerations
11. The commercial poaching-green
militarisation nexus as unsustainable environmental conflict PART III
Emerging and alternative responses to wildlife crime
12. Ecocide as wildlife
crime
13. Wildlife harmscapes and whole-of-society responses: beyond
criminalisation towards inclusive conservation
14. Responding to illegal
wildlife trade in Hong Kong, SAR, China
15. Southern perspectives on wildlife
crime: non-punitive responses to IUU in Argentina
16. Regulatory compliance
and the illegal wildlife trade: a case study on the factors affecting rhino
horn prescription by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Guangdong
province, China
17. Beyond CITES: the rationale for a global agreement
against wildlife trafficking
18. Poaching, illegal wildlife trade, and
sustainable development: challenges and opportunity PART IV Emerging and
ongoing issues in wildlife crime
19. Illegal captive breeding of wildlife
20.
Shark fin trade in Hong Kong: forensic and investigative solutions
21.
Legalisation and sustainable use as an alternative approach to tackling
wildlife crime
22. "Denial of injury" and "denial of the victim" in the
(illegal) wildlife trade: the case of the European eel
23. Wildlife
trafficking via social media: implications for biodiversity conservation and
public health in Brazil
24. Illegal wildlife trade in non-timber ornamental
plants
25. Conclusion: reflections on researching and understanding wildlife
crime
Francis Massé is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. He takes a political ecology approach to examine the intersection of wildlife trade economies, conservation, and development.
Annette Hübschle is Chief Research Officer and Co-Director of the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research explores illicit economies, natural resource extraction, contested regulation, and the emergence of new harmscapes.
Laura Gutiérrez is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK, focusing on green criminology and socio-environmental harm.
Rebecca W.Y. Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding Distribution Networks (2019).
Tanya Wyatt is the Lead Researcher on Crimes that Affect the Environment for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes Research and Trend Analysis Branch. Prior to this role, she was Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK.
