Wildlife crime: The application of forensic geoscience to assist with criminal investigations

Wisniewski, Kristopher D.; Pringle, Jamie K.; Allen, Daniel; Wilson, G.E.

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.10.026

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“…White (2016) describes the idea of "folk crime," that is, illegal acts that are perceived by the offenders and the community as not so criminal, dangerous, or harmful. Illegal killings of animals by hunters and farmers may be considered less offensive by rural residents, especially of animals that are considered "pests" or threats to the offenders and their businesses (see, e.g., Ruiz-Suárez et al 2015;Wagner et al 2019;Wisniewski et al 2019). However, offenders of EWC are not necessarily unaware or nonchalant regarding offending; rather, they utilize justifications to neutralize inner, moral conflicts; see, for example, neutralization theory Matza 1957).…”

Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimementioning

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Crime and Safety in the Rural

Ceccato

Abraham

2022

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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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Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimementioning

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Crime and Safety in the Rural

Ceccato

Abraham

2022

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“…White (2016) describes the idea of "folk crime," that is, illegal acts that are perceived by the offenders and the community as not so criminal, dangerous, or harmful. Illegal killings of animals by hunters and farmers may be considered less offensive by rural residents, especially of animals that are considered "pests" or threats to the offenders and their businesses (see, e.g., Enticott 2011;Ruiz-Suárez et al 2015;Wagner et al 2019;Wisniewski et al 2019). However, offenders of EWC are not necessarily unaware or nonchalant regarding offending; rather, they utilize justifications to neutralize inner, moral conflicts; see, for example, neutralization theory (Sykes andMatza 1957).…”

Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Crime, Offenders, and Victims

Ceccato

Abraham

2022

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In this chapter, we discuss examples of crime trends in areas on rural-urban continuum in several countries, illustrating the difficulties and possible dangers of comparing between types of statistics and across countries. The types of offenders found in rural areas as well as the types of victimization that most affect those living in these areas are also discussed in this chapter, based on examples from the international literature. Victimization in rural areas includes a wide array of offenses from farm crime and environmental and wildlife offenses, to violence against women, harassment, and discrimination against minority groups, to drug and organized crime, just to name a few.

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“…Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology, a non-destructive technique based on the propagation and reflection of electromagnetic waves [1,2], has been successfully adopted as a subsurface prospection tool to assist forensic investigation in a broad range of security applications, from buried explosive threats to human remains detection, as well as locating and tracking people in disaster areas [3,4]. It is therefore evident, the wide variety of possible targets and scenarios that GPR equipment developed for security tasks has to deal with, which implies a degree of flexibility hardly achievable with other geophysical alternatives [5][6][7][8].…”

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Ballistic Ground Penetrating Radar Equipment for Blast-Exposed Security Applications

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Among all the forensic applications in which it has become an important exploration tool, ground penetrating radar (GPR) methodology is being increasingly adopted for buried landmine localisation, a framework in which it is expected to improve the operations efficiency, given the high resolution imaging capability and the possibility of detecting both metallic and non-metallic landmines. In this context, this study presents landmine detection equipment based on multi-polarisation: a ground coupled GPR platform, which ensures suitable penetration/resolution performance without affecting the safety of surveys, thanks to the inclusion of a flexible ballistic shielding for supporting eventual blasts. The experimental results have shown that not only can the blanket absorb blast-induced flying fragments impacts, but that it also allows for the acquisition of data with the accuracy required to generate a correct 3D reconstruction of the subsurface. The produced GPR volume is then processed through an automated learning scheme based on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) capable of detecting buried objects with a high degree of accuracy.

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Wildlife crime: The application of forensic geoscience to assist with criminal investigations

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Crime and Safety in the Rural

Crime and Safety in the Rural

Crime, Offenders, and Victims

Ballistic Ground Penetrating Radar Equipment for Blast-Exposed Security Applications

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