RT Article
T1 Risky facilities: analysis of illegal recreational fishing in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia
JF The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
VO 52
IS 3
SP 368
OP 389
A1 Weekers, Damian P.
A1 Zahnow, Renee
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1737753960
AB This paper extends criminological interpretations of risky facilities to focus on how illegal fishing is concentrated in a small number of places in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia. Testing the applicability of the general hypothesis of risky facilities - that crime is highly concentrated among certain people, places and things - the results demonstrate that the spatial distribution of poaching in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park reflects previous environmental criminology studies which show that crime is concentrated in a small number of places. Poaching risk increases in no-take zones which share a number of homogenous characteristics that also attract legitimate routine activity. Our findings lend support to the emerging environmental criminology literature which examines wildlife crime through the lens of opportunity. Such an approach provides conservation practitioners with an established framework for developing prevention-based compliance management strategies in marine protected areas.
K1 Environmental criminology
K1 Illegal fishing
K1 Marine protected areas
K1 Poaching
K1 Risky facilities
K1 Situational crime prevention
K1 Wildlife crime
DO 10.1177/0004865818804021