Combating Wildlife Crime in South Africa
Using Gelatine Lifters for Forensic Trace Recovery
Authors: Mayer, Claude-Hélène
Free Preview- Reflects the state-of-the-art in wildlife crime research, featuring in-depth insight into internationally used forensic trace recovery tools
- Provides practical applications of research conducted in South Africa to international wildlife crime contexts
- Recommends improvements to best practices in combating wildlife crime
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- About this book
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This brief explores wildlife crime and its international and culture-specific combat in South Africa from a green psychology perspective, focusing on a specific method of forensic trace recovery by analysing and evaluating the use of gelatine lifters.
It provides theoretical and applied insight into visualising and sequential processing of finger-, shoe- and footprints, and environmental traces. It allows the reader in-depth insight into effective methods of international wildlife crime combat, based on the South African perspective. This brief gives theoretical and applied recommendations for international, regional and local actors for successful cooperation on wildlife protection. As global and local programs, actions and law enforcement strategies to combat wildlife crime are gaining strength, forensic trace evidence is a useful method for investigative and preventive success. This brief will be useful for students and researchers in forensic science, wildlife crime, green criminology, as well as for law enforcement and international actors combating wildlife crime practically on both international and local levels. - About the authors
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Claude-Hélène Mayer is a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University in South Africa, and an Adjuct Professor at Europa-University Viadrina in Germany. She has an MSc in Crime Studies, Investigation and Intelligence, a PhD in Psychology and a PhD in Management. Her work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and consulting experiences, focusing on combating wildlife crime from an African perspective.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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The Context: Wildlife and Wildlife Crime in South Africa from a Green Criminology Perspective
Pages 7-23
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Forensic Trace Recovery in Green Criminology
Pages 25-30
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Research Methodology
Pages 31-39
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Findings
Pages 41-54
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Combating Wildlife Crime in South Africa
- Book Subtitle
- Using Gelatine Lifters for Forensic Trace Recovery
- Authors
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- Claude-Hélène Mayer
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Criminology
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-05891-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05891-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-05890-6
- Series ISSN
- 2192-8533
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 71
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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