Tanya Wyatt Libros

Focusing on the crimes of individuals and corporations with unchecked power, this textbook delves into the intricate relationship between these offenses and their impact on human and non-human species, as well as the environment. It offers a novel perspective on criminology, emphasizing the importance of understanding crimes and victimizations within the context of societal structures and personal power dynamics. This comprehensive examination aims to enrich criminology programs by addressing critical contemporary issues.

Focusing on the illegal wildlife trade, this research critiques mainstream criminology's neglect of environmental harms and the speciesist approach of green criminology. Through case studies in Russia's Far East, it adopts an ecocentric perspective that values all species and their rights. The book identifies three structural harms linked to wildlife trafficking: environmental damage, animal cruelty, and threats to security from organized crime. It also proposes typologies for understanding trafficking dynamics and offers solutions for policy and enforcement improvements.

The book provides a critical analysis of CITES, focusing on its effectiveness in implementing and ensuring compliance with regulations aimed at protecting endangered species. It delves into the challenges and successes faced by the convention, offering insights into the impact of international trade on wildlife conservation efforts. Through detailed assessment, it highlights the importance of cooperation among nations in safeguarding biodiversity.

Focusing on wildlife trafficking, this book offers an in-depth criminological analysis of its global scale, threats, and driving factors. It updates the discussion with new statistics and examples post-2013, including the impacts of COVID-19 and shifts in trafficking hotspots. The text examines the roles of victims, offenders, and stakeholders in combating this environmental crime while addressing the security implications and potential strategies for intervention. It serves as a valuable resource for scientists, law enforcement, NGOs, and policymakers.

This volume examines crimes that violate environmental regulations, as part of an emerging area of criminology known as green criminology. The contributions to this book examine criminal justice concerns related to regulating and enforcing environmental laws, as well as the consequences for families and communities impacted by hazardous waste and pollution. It also describes possible strategies for deterring and preventing organized crime related to environmental regulations, including black market sales of ozone depleting substances. This innovative volume provides a criminological framework for understanding environmental harms. Examining cases from the US, Europe and Australia, this volume compares and contrasts international approaches for regulating hazardous substances, and enforcing those regulations. This work will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly interested in green criminology or environmental law, as well as researchers in environmental sciences, white collar and corporate crime, and policymakers.

The concept of wildlife criminology reaches new boundaries in this illuminating new study of exploitation of animals and its social implications. Reviewing harms like exploitation and trade, blood sports and wildlife as food, it considers the rights of animals as sentient beings and the impact of crimes on inter-human attitudes and violence.

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