Applying Crime Pattern Theory and Risk Terrain Modeling to Examine Environmental Crime in Cambodia

Cowan, Devin; Moreto, William D.; Burton, Christina; Nobles, Matt R.; Singh, Rohit

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“…Other theories in environmental criminology also comprises an integral part of the reviewed rural crime literature, including applications of routine activity theory and situational crime prevention to rural areas in different countries (e.g., Aransiola One example includes the analysis of environmental crime. While the first studies in this area were concerned with crime geography and prevention (e.g., Cowan et al 2020;, new research of a more "tactical" nature is emerging, for example, detecting a place's equivalent to a "fingerprint," which is important information for crime investigation and prevention (Lega et al 2014).…”

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Crime and Safety in the Rural

Ceccato

Abraham

2022

SpringerBriefs in Criminology

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SpringerBriefs in Criminology present concise summaries of cutting edge research across the fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice. It publishes small but impactful volumes of between 50-125 pages, with a clearly defined focus. The series covers a broad range of Criminology research from experimental design and methods, to brief reports and regional studies, to policy-related applications.The scope of the series spans the whole field of Criminology and Criminal Justice, with an aim to be on the leading edge and continue to advance research. The series will be international and cross-disciplinary, including a broad array of topics, including juvenile delinquency, policing, crime prevention, terrorism research, crime and place, quantitative methods, experimental research in criminology, research design and analysis, forensic science, crime prevention, victimology, criminal justice systems, psychology of law, and explanations for criminal behavior.SpringerBriefs in Criminology will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and practitioners working in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research and in related academic fields such as Sociology, Psychology, Public Health, Economics and Political Science.

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Crime and Safety in the Rural

Ceccato

Abraham

2022

SpringerBriefs in Criminology

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“…Wildlife crime research has consistently demonstrated that a wide variety of poaching types concentrate in space and time (Cowan et al, 2020;Kurland et al, 2018;Maingai et al, 2012;Nyirenda & Chomba, 2012;Petrossian, 2018;Weekers, Mazerolle & Zahnow, 2020). While much of this literature has successfully described the spatial and temporal risk factors associated with poaching, environmental criminologists analyzing wildlife crime problems have sought to explain these patterns through human-ecological theory (Moreto & Pires, 2018;Peterossian, 2019).…”

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“…From this perspective, poaching hot spots emerge from the complex social-ecological system that influences how, when and where individuals engage with their environment (Hill, 2015). They argue that an understanding of the social dynamics of poaching hot spots provides conservation managers with an increased capacity to engage in proactive and prevention focused compliance management practices (Cowan et al, 2020;Moreto & Lemieux, 2015).…”

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Illegal fishing and compliance management in marine protected areas: a situational approach

Weekers

Thiault

2021

Crime Sci

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Protected Areas (PAs) are spatially representative management tools that impose various levels of protection for conservation purposes. As spatially regulated places, ensuring compliance with the rules represents a key element of effective management and positive conservation outcomes. Wildlife crime, and in particular poaching, is a serious global problem that undermines the success of PAs. This study applies a socio-ecological approach to understanding the opportunity structure of illegal recreational fishing (poaching) in no-take zones in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. We use Boosted Regression Trees to predict the spatio-temporal distribution of poaching risk within no-take Marine National Park zones. The results show that five risk factors account for nearly three quarters (73.6%) of the relative importance for poaching in no-take zones and that temporally varying conditions influence risk across space. We discuss these findings through the theoretical lens of Environmental Criminology and suggest that law enforcement strategies focus on reducing the negative outcomes associated with poaching by limiting the opportunity of would-be offenders to undertake illegal activity.

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“…two protected areas in Cambodia, for the purposes of highlighting the risk factors associated with these crimes (Cowan et al, 2020). The third article employs statistical modeling of social networks to both reconstruct a network comprising connections between those countries that illegally exchange waste and to investigate the correlates of this global trafficking network (Favarin & Aziani, 2020).…”

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“…The first article in this special issue introduces the use of counter-mapping and activist tools as both a new method through which to investigate environmental crimes and as a means to quantify and demonstrate environmental harm in Australia (Barnes & White, 2020). The second article applies risk terrain modeling (RTM) to study fauna and flora–related illegal activities (e.g., illegal logging, flora and fauna poaching) in two protected areas in Cambodia, for the purposes of highlighting the risk factors associated with these crimes (Cowan et al, 2020). The third article employs statistical modeling of social networks to both reconstruct a network comprising connections between those countries that illegally exchange waste and to investigate the correlates of this global trafficking network (Favarin & Aziani, 2020).…”

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New Methods to Enhance the Study of Environmental Crimes and New Instruments to Strengthen Crime Prevention

Favarin¹

2020

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Illegal trade in wildlife, illegal logging and timber trading, unregulated fishing, illegal coral harvesting, as well as the illicit trade of waste and smuggling of ozone-depleting substances are, along with other environmental crimes, detrimentally affecting the quality of air, water, and soil, threatening the survival of fauna and flora, causing irreparable damage to our planet, along with placing a heavy burden on both human health and the economic livelihood of billions of people across the globe. However, despite the nascent global awareness of environmental crimes, this area of scientific inquiry requires further investigation by means of rigorous methods to produce sound empirical knowledge that can inform law enforcement activities and criminal justice systems, and advise policy makers. More specifically, several scholars have highlighted the need to produce new solid empirical research on environmental crimes, and recommended utilizing quantitative methods that have hitherto been neglected in this field (Lynch et al., 2017; Lynch & Pires, 2019; Nobles, 2019). The special issue New Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Investigate Environmental Crimes seeks to improve extant understanding of environmental crimes, advocate for the use of new methods through which to study this topic, and enhance the preventive measures to combat these crimes. I am pleased to introduce this special issue that comprises expert contributions from multiple countries (i.e., Australia, Italy, Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom). The articles included in this issue employ different methodological approaches (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods) to analyze several types of environmental crime in different offline and online contexts around the world (e.g., the illegal harvesting of live corals in Indonesia and Fiji, environmental crimes in protected areas in Cambodia, online illegal trade in endangered plants, and illicit waste trafficking at the global level). Moreover, they present innovative methodological solutions to the study of environmental crimes and guide future researchers in how to construct databases to quantitatively investigate corporate environmental crimes. The first article in this special issue introduces the use of counter-mapping and activist tools as both a new method through which to investigate environmental crimes and as a means to quantify and demonstrate environmental harm in Australia (Barnes & White, 2020). The second article applies risk terrain modeling (RTM) to study fauna and flora-related illegal activities (e.g., illegal logging, flora and fauna poaching) in 939705C CJXXX10.

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Applying Crime Pattern Theory and Risk Terrain Modeling to Examine Environmental Crime in Cambodia

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Crime and Safety in the Rural

Illegal fishing and compliance management in marine protected areas: a situational approach

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