Overview
- Builds upon the significant and growing topic of wildlife crime
- Draws on empirical fieldwork data to explore crimes against wildlife in China
- Speaks to scholars and NGOs working in green criminology and conservation
- Winner of the The 2020 ACS Distinguished Book Award
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology (PSGC)
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This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years. It provides an overall examination of crimes against protected and endangered wildlife and an extensive account of the situation in China, where a significant portion of the illegal wildlife trade is currently happening. This emerging field has become an important topic for enforcement and governments alike yet remains an under-researched area. The collected data covers illegal tiger-parts trade, the illegal ivory trade, and the consumption of protected wildlife. The book will serve as a useful reference for scholars, law-enforcement agencies, lawyers, and conservation and wildlife-protection NGO groups to facilitate their understanding of the growing illegal trade in protected and endangered wildlife.
The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China has three general aims: first, to contribute to the general development of green criminology and specifically to the literature of the illegal transactions of protected wildlife at the distribution stage. Second, it aims to understand how illegal transactions are carried out to create insights for policy makers and law enforcement professionals. Finally, Wong seeks to apply theoretical frameworks (such as that of trust, networks, and situational crime prevention) to the understanding of the distribution of illegal wildlife products in order to make contributions to ongoing sociological and criminological discussions.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Reviews
“Rebecca Wong’s book is a fascinating and expansive consideration of the flourishing underground illegal wildlife trade in China. … This book has inspired me to consider the illegal wildlife trade in far greater depth—I hope that it inspires others to do the same. Overall, Wong should be commended for producing this excellent, expansive, and significant piece of work; I very much look forward to reading more of her work in the future.” (Sally Atkinson-Sheppard, Asian Journal of Criminology, Vol. 16, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rebecca W. Y. Wong completed her PhD studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Her primary research interests are in the fields of Green Criminology, Environmental Crime, the illegal endangered wildlife trade, criminal networks and issues of trust in the underworld. She is also an associate member of the Extra-Legal Governance Institute and the Elephant Research and Conservation Network, University of Oxford.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China
Book Subtitle: Understanding The Distribution Networks
Authors: Rebecca W. Y. Wong
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13666-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13665-9Published: 13 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13668-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13666-6Published: 29 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-269X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2703
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 170
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Green Criminology, Policing, Transnational Crime, Crime Prevention, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics