Conservation criminology: modelling offender target selection for illegal fishing in marine protected areas

The emergence of conservation criminology over the past decade provides a unique insight into patterns of wildlife crime. Wildlife crime has a dramatic impact on many vulnerable species and represents a significant challenge to the management of protected areas around the world. This paper contribut...

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1. VerfasserIn: Weekers, Damian P. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Zahnow, Renee ; Mazerolle, Lorraine
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2019
In: The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2019, Band: 59, Heft: 6, Seiten: 1455-1477
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Conservation criminology
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Illegal fishing
Offender target selection
Situational crime prevention
Wilderei
Wildlife crime
Wildtierkriminalität
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Zusammenfassung:The emergence of conservation criminology over the past decade provides a unique insight into patterns of wildlife crime. Wildlife crime has a dramatic impact on many vulnerable species and represents a significant challenge to the management of protected areas around the world. This paper contributes to the field of conservation criminology by examining the travel patterns of fishing poachers in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia. The results demonstrate that distance is a key feature of offender target selection, reflecting the established environmental criminology concept of distance decay. The analysis also reveals a significant relationship between individual no-take zones and regional population areas. The applicability of a nodal-oriented approach to wildlife crime prevention is discussed.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azz020