Situational Prevention of Poaching [Paperback]

For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense, poaching, is explored in various contexts to determine what opportunity structures favor this crime and how situational crime prevention may reduce its prevalence. The data sources used range from publically available secondary data about animal populations, to interviews with hunters, to actual law enforcement data collected inside protected areas. Various methods are utilized to look for patterns in poaching behaviour regarding where poachers strike, which species they target and their modus operandi.

Collectively, the volume shows that principles of criminal opportunity theory and situational crime prevention are useful for studying and preventing poaching in a variety of contexts. The methods employed by each chapter are easily replicated and meant to stimulate empirical poaching research where data is available. While the theoretical grounding of this volume is drawn from criminology, it is written for a broad audience of academics, practitioners and those interested in wildlife conservation.

1. Introduction, AM Lemieux  2.Rhino Poaching in Kruger National Park, South Africa: Aligning Analysis, Technology and Prevention, Corn? Eloff and AM Lemieux  3. Does Opportunity Make the Poacher?: An Analysis of Neo-Tropical Illicit Parrot Markets, Stephen Pires and Rob T. Guerette  4. Can the Problem Analysis Module (PAM) Help Us Imagine New Preventative Solutions to a Specific Tiger Poaching Issue?, Jennifer Mailley  5. Law Enforcement Monitoring in Uganda: The Utility of Official Data and Time/Distance-Based Ranger Efficiency Measures, William D. Moreto, AM Lemieux, A. Rwetsiba, N. Guma, M. Driciru and H. Kulu Kirya  ls"