• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 3: Criminal Justice Responses to Wildlife Trafficking

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Criminal justice actors and agencies
  • Criminalization of wildlife trafficking
  • Challenges for law enforcement
  • Investigation measures and detection methods
  • DNA
  • Prosecution and judiciary
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in September 2019 

Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• INTERPOL, Global Wildlife Enforcement: Strengthening Law Enforcement Cooperation against Wildlife Crime (March 2018)
• Ogden, Robert, 'DNA Applications and Implementation', in Jane E. Huffman & John R. Wallace, Wildlife forensics: methods and applications (2012) 271-292
• Polner, Mariya & Daniel Moell, 'Interagency Collaboration and Combating Wildlife Crime', in G. Pink et al, Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention (2016) 59-75
• Wellsmith, Melanie, 'Wildlife Crime: The Problems of Enforcement' (2011) 17 European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 125-148
• UNODC, Rotten Fish: A guide on addressing corruption in the fisheries sector (2019). 

 

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