Preventing Wildlife Crime

Abstract

As earlier chapters of this book have outlined, a central difficulty of wildlife law is that its practical policing and law enforcement approach is largely divorced from mainstream criminal justice activity (Nurse, 2003, 2012). Thus, not only is wildlife crime frequently enforced by specialist non-mainstream (mainly environmental) policing agencies, it frequently fails to make use of the full range of criminal justice approaches to dealing with crime (Nurse, 2003, 2012; Wellsmith, 2010, 2011), particularly in respect of crime prevention techniques.