Tackling Wildlife Crime and Wildlife Trafficking
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This Call for Papers invites scholars to submit research for a special issue on wildlife crime and trafficking. Contributions will explore the dynamics of wildlife offending, legal frameworks, and challenges faced by policymakers and enforcement agencies.
This Special Issue brings together scholars working at the intersection of criminology, criminal law, policing, conservation, environmental justice and socio-legal studies to explore the evolving nature, scale and impacts of wildlife crime and wildlife trafficking, including fisheries crime, illegal logging, timber trafficking, and offences involving protected or endangered species.
Contributions will examine the organisation and dynamics of wildlife offending, the harms experienced by human and non-human communities, the legal and regulatory frameworks developed to address these crimes, and the contemporary challenges facing policymakers, practitioners and enforcement agencies in preventing and responding to wildlife crime.
Guest editors:
Dr. Nicholas Pamment, University of Portsmouth
Dr. Tanya Wyatt, Independent Scholar, Vienna, Austria
The Special Issue also seeks to critically examine contemporary enforcement and governance challenges, including corruption, organised crime involvement, forensic and technological developments, border control, online wildlife markets, demand reduction strategies, and the role of international cooperation and multi-agency partnerships. In doing so, it aims to explore broader questions of environmental justice, ecological harm, species protection, and the relationship between wildlife crime, sustainability and global inequality.
Alongside identifying emerging threats and future challenges, this Special Issue will bring together innovative research, policy analysis, and practitioner perspectives to support more effective, equitable and interdisciplinary responses to wildlife crime and wildlife trafficking.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Transnational organised wildlife crime networks
Wildlife cybercrime, online trafficking and digital ecosystems
Green criminology, environmental justice and ecological harm
Wildlife policing, investigation and prosecution
Wildlife forensics and technological innovation
International law, regulation and transnational cooperation
Corruption, illicit markets and organised crime
Biodiversity loss, conservation and sustainability
Human-wildlife conflict and community responses
Emerging challenges and innovative responses to wildlife crime and trafficking
Submission deadline: 01 January 2027
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International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
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The International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice is publishing a special issue focused on the evolving nature, scale, and impacts of wildlife crime and wildlife trafficking, inviting scholarly submissions from various interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Tackling Wildlife Crime and Wildlife Trafficking
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