Conservation Criminology

Meredith L. Gore is a conservation social scientist whose interdisciplinary research explores relationships between human behavior and the environment. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife and School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU) and Jefferson Science Fellow with the US Department of State. Dr. Gore is a MSU Global Research Fellow and President of the Society for Conservation Biology s Social Science Working Group.

Chapter 1: Global Risks, Conservation and Criminology Meredith L. Gore Section 1: Conceptual Advancements in Conservation Criminology Chapter 2: Conservation Crime Science Jessica S. Kahler and Meredith L. Gore Chapter 3: Deterrence, Legitimacy and Wildlife Crime in Protected Areas William D. Moreto and Jacinta M. Gau Section 2: Case Studies and Examples Chapter 4: Governance for Conservation Risks and Crime Mark A. Axelrod, Austin Flowers, Katherine Groff and Julia Novak Colwell Chapter 5: Gaining Compliance and Cooperation with Regulated Wildlife Harvest Brent A. Rudolph and Shawn J. Riley Chapter 6: Corruption and Organized Crime in Conservation Aksel Sundstromand Tanya Wyatt Chapter 7: Problem-Oriented Policing for Natural Resource Conservation Mark G. Gibson Chapter 8: Wildlife Tourism, Global Risks, and Crime Jessica Bell Rizzolo Section 3: Models and Innovations Chapter 9: Innovations in Technology Support Wildlife Crime Detection, Deterrence and Enforcement Heidi Kretser, Emma Stokes, Serge Wich, David Foran and Alexa Montefiore Chapter 10: PAWS: Game Theory Based Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security Fei Fang, Benjamin Ford, Rong Yang, Milind Tambe and Andrew Lemieux Chapter 11: Estimating Poaching Opportunity and Potential Adrian Treves, Christine Browne-Nunez, Jamie Hogberg, Jens Kalrsson Frank, Lisa Naughton-Treves, Nicole Rust and Zachary Voyles