RT Review
T1 Structures, functions and flows of IWT: deconstructing a criminal network between East Africa and Southeast Asia
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 77
IS 5
SP 577
OP 601
A1 Costa, Jacopo
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1824524099
AB The paper investigates the role of criminal networks in fostering illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and how these relational structures interact with transnational organized crime. The paper frames these topics within the debate around the opportunistic or organized nature of IWT. The aim is to understand how chaotic behaviors can transform into an ordered and organized strategy. Social network analysis (SNA) and network ethnography were conducted to explore the crime network surrounding a wildlife trafficker based in East Africa. The empirical results suggest that criminal networks operate as "machine of order" that transform opportunistic behaviors at the micro level into ordered strategies at the macro level. Empirical results also suggest that organized crime has an important role in making the process of transforming opportunistic into organized behaviours more efficient and more effective.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 598-601
K1 Umweltkriminalität
K1 Organisiertes Verbrechen
K1 Wildtiere
K1 Tierhandel
K1 Geschützte Tiere
K1 criminal governance
K1 environmental crime
K1 illegal wildlife trade
K1 Social Network Analysis
K1 transnational organized crime
K1 Ostafrika
K1 Südostasien
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1007/s10611-021-10009-8