Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime

Francis Massé is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. He takes a political ecology approach to examine the intersection of wildlife trade economies, conservation, and development.Annette Hübschle is Chief Research Officer and Co-Director of the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research explores illicit economies, natural resource extraction, contested regulation, and the emergence of new harmscapes.Laura Gutiérrez is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK, focusing on green criminology and socio-environmental harm.Rebecca W.Y. Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding Distribution Networks (2019).Tanya Wyatt is the Lead Researcher on Crimes that Affect the Environment for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Research and Trend Analysis Branch. Prior to this role, she was Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK.

• 1. Introduction – Beyond boundaries: foundations and frameworks in critical wildlife crime studies PART I Wildlife crime’s interfaces and interconnections 2. Interfaces of il/legality in European wildlife trade 3. Wildlife crimes, harms, and the role of masculinity in legal and illegal hunting 4. Understanding cultural use and spirituality: Iion body part trade in southern Africa 5. Corporations and wildlife crime: causes, contexts, and consequences 6. Camel races – tradition, sport, and politics 7. Organised crime and wildlife trafficking PART II Critical approaches, methods, and reflections on researching wildlife crime 8. Zooming-in, zooming-out: closing the gap between practices in the wildlife trade and associated theories 9. A framework for conducting research on consumer demand for high-value wildlife products in Asia 10. Estimating wildlife crime prevalence: quantitative methods and ethical considerations 11. The commercial poaching-green militarisation nexus as unsustainable environmental conflict PART III Emerging and alternative responses to wildlife crime 12. Ecocide as wildlife crime 13. Wildlife harmscapes and whole-of-society responses: beyond criminalisation towards inclusive conservation 14. Responding to illegal wildlife trade in Hong Kong, SAR, China 15. Southern perspectives on wildlife crime: non-punitive responses to IUU in Argentina 16. Regulatory compliance and the illegal wildlife trade: a case study on the factors affecting rhino horn prescription by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Guangdong province, China 17. Beyond CITES: the rationale for a global agreement against wildlife trafficking 18. Poaching, illegal wildlife trade, and sustainable development: challenges and opportunity PART IV Emerging and ongoing issues in wildlife crime 19. Illegal captive breeding of wildlife 20. Shark fin trade in Hong Kong: forensic and investigative solutions 21. Legalisation and sustainable use as an alternative approach to tackling wildlife crime 22. "Denial of injury" and "denial of the victim" in the (illegal) wildlife trade: the case of the European eel 23. Wildlife trafficking via social media: implications for biodiversity conservation and public health in Brazil 24. Illegal wildlife trade in non-timber ornamental plants 25. Conclusion: reflections on researching and understanding wildlife crime