RT Article
T1 The criminalization of the trade in wildlife
JF Organized crime in the 21st century
SP 155
OP 169
A1 Uhm, Daan P. van
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1925525325
AB In the twentieth century, the damage from unregulated trade in wildlife became transparent as many species became extinct or were on the brink of extinction. Consequently, various moral entrepreneurs emerged to underline the need for regulation. The effect of these initiatives to protect endangered species was divergent. On the one hand, protecting species was regularly faced with the economic and personal interests of powerful stakeholders stagnating any conservation initiatives. On the other hand, European imperialists enhanced the exclusion of local people in order to protect nature reserves and their species. In the late 1900s, public concern increased and international agreements were signed at the initiative of Western countries. The criminalization of the trade in wildlife in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries will be discussed in this chapter to understand the social construction of wildlife trade as a serious crime, being controlled by organized crime networks.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 166-169
SN 9783031215759
K1 Wildlife
K1 Criminalization
K1 Social Construction
K1 Organized Crime