Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking?
Over the past two decades, the rapid growth of the Internet has led to important changes in criminal activities, offering new opportunities and facilitating certain types of crime such as illegal trafficking. Wildlife trafficking, specifically, is constantly increasing worldwide and constitutes a th...
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| author | Elodie Demeau Miguel Eduardo Vargas Monroy Karolan Jeffrey |
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| description | Over the past two decades, the rapid growth of the Internet has led to important changes in criminal activities, offering new opportunities and facilitating certain types of crime such as illegal trafficking. Wildlife trafficking, specifically, is constantly increasing worldwide and constitutes a threat not only to many species’ survival but also to national and international security. The illegal trade of wildlife has been examined by researchers through many theoretical frameworks; however, the ways it has been affected by the Internet has not received a lot of attention. More so, whilst some researches suggest that the physical markets of wildlife and drug share similarities, their respective virtual markets have not been compared yet. Thus, this article builds on an in-depth review of the current literature to not only look into these gaps but also to make recommendations for future empirical researches on the issue of animal trafficking. This article highlights the need for more empirical research on the matter of online wildlife trafficking and, falling into the green criminological perspective, argue for all the wild species to be given equal rights regardless of the threat they may face. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0342a3a9d2f4469da199bc904adb36212025-08-20T03:16:46ZengPolicía Nacional de ColombiaRevista Criminalidad1794-31082256-55312019-05-01612101112Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking?Elodie Demeau0Miguel Eduardo Vargas Monroy1Karolan Jeffrey2Licenciada en Criminologia Candidata a Doctor en Criminologia Universidad de Montreal Montreal, Canadá elodie.demeau@umontreal.caMagister en Derecho LL.M Director de Negocios, Earth Alive Clean Terchnologies Inc. Asociacion de Derecho Internacional de Canadá, Admitido al ejercicio del derecho en Colombia, Miembro de ONG Instituto Nomomente. Montreal, Canada migueleduardo.monroy@gmail.comMagister en Criminologia Candidata a Doctor en Criminologia Universidad de Montreal Montreal, Canada karolan.jeffrey@umontreal.caOver the past two decades, the rapid growth of the Internet has led to important changes in criminal activities, offering new opportunities and facilitating certain types of crime such as illegal trafficking. Wildlife trafficking, specifically, is constantly increasing worldwide and constitutes a threat not only to many species’ survival but also to national and international security. The illegal trade of wildlife has been examined by researchers through many theoretical frameworks; however, the ways it has been affected by the Internet has not received a lot of attention. More so, whilst some researches suggest that the physical markets of wildlife and drug share similarities, their respective virtual markets have not been compared yet. Thus, this article builds on an in-depth review of the current literature to not only look into these gaps but also to make recommendations for future empirical researches on the issue of animal trafficking. This article highlights the need for more empirical research on the matter of online wildlife trafficking and, falling into the green criminological perspective, argue for all the wild species to be given equal rights regardless of the threat they may face.http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1794-31082019000200101&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=esdrug trafficking;eviromental criminology;virtual market;illicit traffic;Wildlife trafficking;green criminology; |
| spellingShingle | Elodie Demeau Miguel Eduardo Vargas Monroy Karolan Jeffrey Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking? Revista Criminalidad drug trafficking; eviromental criminology; virtual market; illicit traffic; Wildlife trafficking; green criminology; |
| title | Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking? |
| title_full | Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking? |
| title_fullStr | Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking? |
| title_short | Wildlife trafficking on the internet: a virtual market similar to drug trafficking? |
| title_sort | wildlife trafficking on the internet a virtual market similar to drug trafficking |
| topic | drug trafficking; eviromental criminology; virtual market; illicit traffic; Wildlife trafficking; green criminology; |
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