The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China Understanding The Distribution Networks /

• Main Author: Wong, Rebecca W. Y. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
• Subjects: Offenses against the environment.; Police.; Transnational crime.; Crime prevention.; Animal welfare.; Green Criminology.; Policing.; Transnational Crime.; Crime Prevention.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.

This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years. It provides an overall examination of crimes against protected and endangered wildlife and an extensive account of the situation in China, whe...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Demand and Supply of Protected Wildlife Products in China
• 2. China and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
• 3. Criminological Perspective on the Illegal Wildlife Trade
• 4. Conducting Research on the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China
• 5. The Illegal Distribution of Ivory
• 6. The Illegal Tiger Parts Trade
• 7. Consumption of Protected Wildlife as Food
• 8. Conclusion.