ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores some of the main issues in the field of transnational environmental crime and harm and its containment, as well as some of the challenges for green criminology. It discusses the scope of transnational environmental crime and three main strategies to curb the problem: enforcing environmental regulations, reducing general opportunity structures, and putting social pressure on the perpetrators. The book analyses the global and European scope of trafficking in protected wildlife. Using among other sources empirical data from the European Union (EU) Trade in Wildlife exchange database on seizures, Daan van Uhm presents an overview of the species involved, and the countries of origin and destination, and analyses the characteristics of the offenders. The book draws attention to the discipline of criminology and examines the implications of the development of green criminology for the paradigmatic boundaries of the field.
