Wildlife Crime

“Wildlife Crime deftly investigates conservation science issues, from trafficking and poaching to the management and monitoring of protected areas. William Moreto has compiled a superb collection of essays from academics with theoretical approaches and practitioners with on-the-ground experience to provide a definitive volume on key topics from a criminological standpoint.”—Dr. Richard Leakey, Chairman Kenya Wildlife Service and Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University

“ Poaching and wildlife trafficking have come to pose a major threat to species and biodiversity. Yet policies to counter it have exhibited highly inconsistent and often disappointing effectiveness. Moreover, many misconceptions pervade policy design and advocacy. By bringing together important insights from prominent criminologists, Wildlife Crime provides a most useful contribution, exploring how criminology concepts and successful strategies can be applied to a broad range of anti-wildlife-crime policies as well as in debunking myths of the illegal wildlife trade.”—Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It

"(A) multifaceted exploration of the field.... Moreto has demonstrated the role criminologists play in the study of wildlife crime, and more importantly, in its prevention. Wildlife Crime is unique in its offering of theoretical, methodological, and practitioner perspectives.... (It) is a must-read for emerging scholars and academics in the field." — Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

"Wildlife Crime outlines how much can be gained by using a criminologist’s perspective to address the threats of poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. This text is a collection of insightful research efforts from around the world.... Wildlife Crime exposes the complexity of wildlife crime and the strategies required to address it. This book also emphasizes the importance of understanding human sciences, how human emotion and ethics can influence law enforcement efforts, policy, and law, and how people’s objectification of wildlife creates different illegal wildlife markets that threaten wilderness and global biodiversity."
— Journal of Wildlife Management

"(A)n ideal primer for anyone not trained in criminology and interested in its application to biodiversity conservation. The book’s strength is in its comprehensive demonstration of the relevance of criminology to understanding the illegal wildlife trade, making it useful for interested conservation biologists and wildlife scientists.... A comprehensive introduction to how criminological theory and methods can be applied to illegal wildlife trade.... Excellent case studies illustrate theories, demonstrate the use of criminological methods, and show the significance of understanding the practical environment in which wildlife crime interventions are implemented.... The book also contains much interesting and engaging material.... that will be new and even surprising to most readers."
— Oryx