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Andrew Lemieux - Situational Prevention of Poaching, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Situational Prevention of Poaching

Av Andrew Lemieux

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For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense, poaching, is explored in various contexts to determine what opportunity structures favor this crime and how situational crime prevention may reduce its prevalence. The data sources used range from publically available secondary data about animal populations, to interviews with hunters, to actual law enforcement data collected inside protected areas. Various methods are utilized to look for patterns in poaching behaviour regarding where poachers strike, which species they target and their modus operandi. Collectively, the volume shows that principles of criminal opportunity theory and situational crime prevention are useful for studying and preventing poaching in a variety of contexts. The methods employed by each chapter are easily replicated and meant to stimulate empirical poaching research where data is available. While the theoretical grounding of this volume is drawn from criminology, it is written for a broad audience of academics, practitioners and those interested in wildlife conservation.
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AM Lemieux is a Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. His main areas of interest are the spatial and temporal distribution of crime, the use of technology to improve law enforcement operations, and anti-poaching operations in Africa.

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"Poaching is a crime with global and historical repercussions. This important and timely book, written by some of the most influential scholars in the field, fills a critical void in the criminology and crime prevention literature."D. Kim Rossmo, Department of Criminal Justice, Texas State University"Andrew Lemieux’s Situational Crime Prevention of Poaching is a marvellous book. Its internationally respected contributors go far beyond lamenting the impact of poaching on our wildlife. They show with rigorous research why this is happening, and as important, they show how practical steps can be taken to stop it. Anyone – wildlife manager, conservation official, policy maker, researcher, student, or informed citizen – concerned with the protection of wildlife must read this book."John E. Eck, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati"Most crime prevention literature concerns itself with attacks on people and property in the Western world. Meanwhile, a quarter of all mammalian species are now at risk of extinction in the wild by dint of human agency. Our children and grandchildren seem destined to inhabit a world of diminished biodiversity unless more attention is directed towards crimes contributing towards that bleak prospect. This book marries the necessary focus on wildlife crime with a set of practical and achievable tactics for its reduction."Ken Pease, University College London

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