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The Geography of Environmental Crime

open access: yes, 2016
In the 21st century, environmental harm is an ever-present reality of our globalised world. Over the last 20 years criminologists have made great strides in their understanding of how different institutions in society, and criminal justice systems in particular, respond (or fail to respond) to the harm imposed on ecosystems and their human and non ...
Hall, Matthew   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The phenomenon of pro-environmental crime: Criminal law and criminological aspects [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled
This paper investigates the phenomenon of pro-environmental crime from both criminal law and criminological perspectives. The first part discusses the concept and basic characteristics of pro-environmental crime.
Matković Aleksandar B.   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regardless if it is comedy, action, thriller, or biography: A review of urban crime in the 1980s cinema of Chicago

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research, 2021
This study investigates the cinematic representation of city crime transactions in Chicago in the 1980s. The narrative nature of cinema provides an imaginative context for interpreting the physical and nonphysical dimensions of urban crimes.
Hamed Goharipour   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anisotropic Diffusion for Improved Crime Prediction in Urban China

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
As a major social issue during urban development, crime is closely related to socioeconomic, geographic, and environmental factors. Traditional crime prediction models reveal the spatiotemporal dynamics of crime risks, but usually ignore the ...
Yicheng Tang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of crime occurrence from multi-modal data using deep learning. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
In recent years, various studies have been conducted on the prediction of crime occurrences. This predictive capability is intended to assist in crime prevention by facilitating effective implementation of police patrols.
Hyeon-Woo Kang, Hang-Bong Kang
doaj   +1 more source

Crime as Pollution? Theoretical, Definitional and Policy Concerns with Conceptualizing Crime as Pollution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Criminologists have advocated understanding ‘crime as pollution’ to argue for market based crime control policy initiatives that mirror pollution control policy initiatives.
Stretesky, Paul   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Sanction Avoidance and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Case Study of an Urban Wild Meat Supply Chain

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
The unprecedented global scale of illegal wildlife trade poses threats to humans and ecosystems. Policies calling for increased enforcement to control illicit trade are rooted in the idea that more enforcement will result in greater deterrence, but as ...
Meredith L. Gore   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trafficking of contagion: Environmental crime and biological threats in the Greater Mekong

open access: yes, 2022
Most of the vast number of commodities derived from wildlife and other environmental resources that are traded illicitly across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have direct or indirect implications for biological threats.
Luong, Hai, Thomson, Nicholas
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Situational crime analysis of poaching within Territorial Use Rights Fisheries (TURFs)

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
IntroductionIllegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing poses a significant threat to marine resource management globally. Environmental criminology plays a vital role in understanding and mitigating IUU activities by focusing on the contextual ...
Tomás Vallejos   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preventing Environmental Crime and Human Vulnerability through the MGPOC Framework: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Lithium Industry

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022
Based on a research in progress, the ‘micro-geopolitics of organised crime’ (MGPOC) framework examines how and why organised crime groups (OCGs) around the globe develop illicit economies associated to natural resources.
Fausto Carbajal Glass
doaj   +1 more source

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