Camouflage-Collar Crime: An Examination of Wildlife Crime and Characteristics of Offenders in Florida |
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| Authors: | Matthew S. Crow Tara O'Connor Shelley Paul B. Stretesky |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of West Florida , Pensacola , Florida , USA mcrow@uwf.edu;3. Colorado State University , Fort Collins , Colorado , USA;4. University of Colorado Denver , Denver , Colorado , USA |
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| Abstract: | Fish and wildlife crime is an understudied area of criminology and criminal justice and when it is the focus of research, studies tend to be characterized by small samples and a lack of multivariate analyses. This study examines the nature and extent of cited fish and wildlife offenses and characteristics of offenders through quantitative analysis of 15,657 incidents of cited fish and wildlife offenses in Florida. The results indicate that a viable typology of wildlife crime is emergent and that there are important racial and ethnic differences across types of wildlife offenses. |
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