• 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  

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides and video material, that could help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. Lecturers can adapt the resources to their needs.

PowerPoint

• Module 3 PowerPoint presentation

 

Open-source videos

• The Economist, How to stop ivory trade (2018), [6:56 minutes]
• INTERPOL, Training video on ivory sampling (2016), [18:53 minutes] 
• World Bank, Part III: Niassa Elephant Defenders: Dangers and Motivations (2018), [6:01 minutes]

 

Related Education for Justice (E4J) topics/module

• University Module Series on Anti-Corruption
• University Module Series on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and especially:
• • Module 4: Use of Force and Firearms
• University Module Series on Cybercrime
• University Module Series on Integrity & Ethics
• University Module Series on Organized Crime, and especially:
• • Module 2: Organizing the Commission of Crimes
  • Module 4: Infiltration of Organized Crime in Business and Government
  • Module 8: Law Enforcement Tools and Cooperation
  • Module 10: Sentencing and Confiscation in Organized Crime
  • Module 11: International Cooperation to Combat Transnational Organized Crime
• University Module Series on Wildlife, Forest and Fisheries Crime, and especially:
• • Module 2: International Frameworks for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime

 

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