[HTML][HTML] Wildlife crime: a conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique

J Kurland, SF Pires, SC McFann, WD Moreto - Crime Science, 2017 - Springer
Wildlife crime, including poaching and wildlife trafficking, threaten the existence of particular
species. To date, research on wildlife crime has been primarily conducted by those with …

Corruption within the illegal wildlife trade: a symbiotic and antithetical enterprise

DP Van Uhm, WD Moreto - The British Journal of Criminology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This study focuses on the role of corruption in facilitating the illegal wildlife trade. This
research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the existence, influence and …

Fieldwork in conservation organisations–A review of methodological challenges, opportunities and ethics

O Saif, S Staddon, A Keane - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Social science methodologies are increasingly used by conservation organisations to
improve social‐ecological outcomes. However, ethnographic approaches seeking to …

Conservation law enforcement: Policing protected areas

F Massé - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines how recent increases in commercial poaching of wildlife intensify the
dictates that underpin conservation law and its enforcement; namely, the securing of space …

Provoked poachers? Applying a situational precipitator framework to examine the nexus between human-wildlife conflict, retaliatory killings, and poaching

WD Moreto - Criminal Justice Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The poaching of wildlife has received substantial interest from criminologists in recent years.
In particular, prior research has attempted to better understand the factors that drive …

Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching

T Kuiper, F Massé, NA Ngwenya, B Kavhu… - People and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ranger‐based monitoring has enormous potential to inform conservation globally, with
hundreds of thousands of rangers patrolling extensive areas and recording observations of …

Taking stock in wildlife crime research: trends and implications for future research

SC McFann, SF Pires - Deviant Behavior, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Wildlife crime is an emerging topic of study within criminology and criminal justice (CCJ).
This study provides the first-ever systematic review of the state of wildlife crime research by …

Occupational motivation and intergenerational linkages of rangers in Asia

WD Moreto, JM Gau, EA Paoline, R Singh, M Belecky… - Oryx, 2019 - cambridge.org
Examining the human dimensions of conservation science continues to generate attention,
with a move towards an interdisciplinary agenda that incorporates both the natural and …

[HTML][HTML] Protected area rangers as cultural brokers? Implications for wildlife crime prevention in Viet Nam

JB Rizzolo, ML Gore, B Long, CT Trung… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The scope, scale, and socio-environmental impacts of wildlife crime pose diverse risks to
people, animals, and environments. With direct knowledge of the persistence and dynamics …

Advancing interdisciplinary research on illegal wildlife trade using a conservation criminology framework

R Boratto, C Gibbs - European Journal of Criminology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Green criminologists have recently entered a period of self-assessment, critiquing the
discursive nature of theory, over-reliance on case studies, and lack of interdisciplinarity in …