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CRIMEANTHROP (completed)

Criminal justice, wildlife conservation and animal rights in the Anthropocene

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About the project

CRIMEANTHROP explored the regulation, rationale behind and enforcement of wildlife conservation, the normative and socio-legal messages of this enforcement, and their implications for wildlife conservation and individual animal welfare.

It used interdisciplinary grounded theoretical and methodological angles and further contribute towards developing international green criminology.

CRIMEANTHROP presented a comprehensive analysis of contemporary wildlife management, human-animal relations and animal rights. Policies and regulations of CITES and the Bern Convention and their impact concerning wildlife trade and human management of endangered predator species were examined in four countries with different, local, and socio-legal conditions: Norway, as primary site of investigation, with UK, Germany, and Spain as supporting case studies. Qualitative methodologies; interviews with politicians and bureaucrats, law enforcement agencies and NGOs (e.g. WWF,NOAH) was employed in each case country. CITES and the Bern Convention, national preparatory works, legislation and case law was subjected to discourse analysis. CRIMEANTHROP empirically and theoretically explored the implementation of CITES and the Bern Convention in the four locations, building on and expanding green criminology scholarship through interdisciplinary approaches from law, political science, criminology, and philosophy. 

Objectives

  • To empirically and theoretically examined if the messages of international conventions (CITES and Bern), and consequently their regulation/legislation and implementation, were ambiguous concerning wildlife protection and animal welfare in Norway, UK, Germany, and Spain.
  • Broadened and developed green criminology as a field through interdisciplinary, international cooperation.
  • Examine whether unclear normative messages conveyed by CITES and the Bern Convention hindered implementation and compliance as well as the achievement of further goals such as awareness raising, wildlife conservation, and ecosystem protection.
  • Theoretically and empirically explored possible differences in influences and outcomes of  political decision making concerning wildlife management and assessed whether this affects states' success in complying with CITES and the Bern Convention and their practices concerning individual and species protection.

Outcomes

CRIMEANTHROP found that the messages conveyed by the conventions are ambiguous; failed to educate about and protect endangered species; and that individual and species protection is insufficiently integrated into member states' conservation approaches resulting in continued exploitation  and abuse, endangering wildlife and species survival, thus prolonging and strengthening species extinction.

Policy briefs

Sub-projects

Financing

CRIMEANTHROP was funded by the Research Council of Norway's Independent projects (FRIPRO) programme.

Cooperation

This was a cooperation between project partners University of Northumbria, University of Colorado Denver and University of Granada. 

Results from the project

List of project results from the project partners.

Publications

  • Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). Large Predator Poaching as Situational Action Fueled by Legal Hunts. Deviant Behavior. ISSN 0163-9625. 45(11), p. 1568–1583. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2024.2312441. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2024). The implementation of CITES in Norway, a longitudinal approach to the assessment of enforcement from a species justice perspective. In Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (Ed.), Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529223354. p. 36–51. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2024). Specicism and the non-human. In Pontell, Henry (Eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190264079. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). Legal Versus Illegal Hunts: A Species Justice Perspective on Wolf and Bear Theriocides in Norway. In Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (Ed.), Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529223354. p. 17–36. doi: 10.56687/9781529223385-004. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). Hunting and the myth of wildlife protection. Transforming Society. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). Conclusion. In Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (Ed.), Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529223354. p. 205–215. doi: 10.56687/9781529223385-014. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). Introduction. In Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (Ed.), Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529223354. p. 1–17. doi: 10.56687/9781529223385-003. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez (2023). National legislative adoption of international wildlife law after treaty ratification. Crime, law and social change. ISSN 0925-4994. doi: 10.1007/s10611-023-10117-7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez (2022). The importance of stories in wildlife management. Ecological Management & Restoration. ISSN 1442-7001. 23(3). doi: 10.1111/emr.12567. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Non-Speciecist Criminology. Wildlife Trade, and Animal Victimization. In Erez, Edna & Ibarra, Peter (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190883140. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Handelen med ville og eksotiske dyr i Norge: Død og pine? Miljøkrim : tidsskrift for miljøkriminalitet. ISSN 1501-5920. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Wildlife trade and law enforcement: A proposal for a remodelling of CITES incorporating species justice, ecojustice, and environmental justice. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology. ISSN 0306-624X. 66(9), p. 1017–1035. doi: 10.1177/0306624X221099492. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Handel med truede dyrearter og håndhevelse i Norge: foreløpige resultater fra CRIMEANTHROP. Miljøkrim : tidsskrift for miljøkriminalitet. ISSN 1501-5920. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). A Gendered Case File Analysis of Reptile Trafficking and Illegal Keeping in Norway. In Agu, Helen & Gore, Meredith (Ed.), Women and Wildlife Trafficking: Participants, Perpetrators and Victims. Routledge. ISSN 9780367640262. doi: 10.4324/9781003121831. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Introduction to the special issue of CRIMEANTHROP: Criminal Justice, wildlife conservation and animal rights in the ANTHROPOCENE. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental. 12(1). doi: 10.17345/RCDA3112. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). The development of the enforcement of CITES in Norway: Discretionary omissions and theriocides. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental. 12(1). doi: 10.17345/rcda3086. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Forskerens frihet og plikt til å tale dyrenes sak. In Pettersen, Arnfinn (Eds.), Ingen frihet uten ytringsfrihet. Humanist Forlag. ISSN 9788282822053. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S. B. (2021). “Humane Theriocides”: Traces of Compassion for Animals in the Norwegian Legal Discourse on Illegal Bear and Wolf Killings. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental. 12(1). doi: 10.17345/rcda3085. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Goyes, David Rodriguez (2021). State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway. Trends in Organized Crime. ISSN 1084-4791. 24, p. 467–484. doi: 10.1007/s12117-021-09420-3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Green Criminology: Its Foundation in Critical Criminology and the Way Forward. The Howard Journal of Communications. ISSN 1064-6175. 60(3), p. 304–322. doi: 10.1111/hojo.12421. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez (2021). CONTENDING PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE LAW: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF CITES AND THE BERN CONVENTION. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental. 12(1), p. 1–35. doi: 10.17345/rcda3051. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2020). Wildlife Crime: A Crime of Hegemonic Masculinity? Social Sciences. 9(6). doi: 10.3390/socsci9060093. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Wildlife Management, Species Injustice and Ecocide in the Anthropocene. Critical Criminology. ISSN 1205-8629. p. 1–19. doi: 10.1007/s10612-019-09469-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). The Critical Criminologist: Spotlight. The Critical Criminologist: Spotlight. 27(2). Full text in Research Archive

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  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529223354. 232 p. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2024). UNODC - Gendered Dimensions of Crimes that Affect the Environment. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild; Lie, Martine S.B.; Nurse, Angus & Maher, Jennifer (2024). Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene, 2024, Sollund and Lie (eds.). Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S.B. (2024). The “desperate hope”: Strategic litigation to save Norwegian wolves. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2024). Hvilken beskyttelse har ville dyr som trues med utryddelse? Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2023). Smugling av dyr er milliardbutikk. [Radio]. NRK Ekko. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2023). Dyrisk: Kva er eit dyr? [Internet]. DAG OG TID podcast. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2023). Hvorfor skal slike dyr drepes? Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2023). Three dead parrots show need for proper ban on wildlife trade. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2023). Three dead parrots show need for proper ban on wildlife trade. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2023). Three dead parrots show need for proper ban on wildlife trade. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S.B. (2023). Er lovlig jakt mer «artsrettferdig» enn illegal jakt? En analyse av ulve- og bjørnejakt i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S.B. (2023). Legal mobilization on behalf of Norwegian wolves. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S.B. (2023). Uplanlagt illegal rovdyrjakt som «situasjonell handling». Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Wildlife trade, law enforcement and a proposal for a radical shift in nature conservation. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild; Wyatt, Tanya; Stefes, Christoph; Goyes, David Rodríguez; Brisman, Avi & South, Nigel [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). CRIMEANTHROP. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Environmental Crime & Gender: Wildlife Crime and Gender. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Wildlife Trafficking, enforcement and species justice. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Grønn kriminologi. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 39(2), p. 166–170. doi: 10.18261/nnt.39.2.7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Panel: Criminal justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene: Findings. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). CRIMEANTHROP - panel and paper. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Wildlife Crime & Gender. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Presentation of findings from case study–Norway: Wildlife trafficking: Control, enforcement and species justice. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). To Curb Smuggling, Norway Has Been Killing Confiscated Wildlife. [Internet]. UNDARK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Heksejakt på ulven. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Why Is Norway Killing Trafficked Wildlife? [Journal]. RealClear Science. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Mennesket – dyrenes beste venn? [Radio]. NRK Ekko. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinhardt, Stefanie & Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). På tide med et oppgjør. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wyatt, Tanya & Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Presentation of findings from case study – UK. The implementation and enforcement of CITES and the Bern Convention. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stefes, Christoph & Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Presentation of findings from case study– Germany. The implementation and enforcement of CITES and the Bern Convention. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez & Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fajardo, Teresa & Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Presentation of findings from case study–Spain. The implementation and enforcement of CITES and the Bern Convention. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez (2022). The importance of stories in wildlife management. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez (2022). The importance of stories in wildlife management. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Wildlife trafficking, enforcement and species justice - Invited speech for of Centre for Human/Animal Studies. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild; Stefes, Christoph & South, Nigel (2022). Panel: Criminal justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene: Findings from a Research Project. Paper: Wildlife Trafficking in Norway and the Enforcement of CITES: Trends from a Decade. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S. B. (2022). Project update. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2022). Roundtable presentation: Eating ET: Carnism, veganism and animal abuse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). CRIMEANTHROP. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Ecocide/Speciesism: Revisiting Hierarchy in the Anthropocene. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). CRIMEANTHROP - panel and paper about wildlife trafficking. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Kontrollen med, og omfang av, illegal handel med truede dyrearter i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Invited speech about wildlife trafficking. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Hvilke rettigheter har dyr? [Radio]. NRK Ekko. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Bør dyr få universelle rettigheter? [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Skjebnen til 25 ulver avgjøres denne uken. Når skal den norske naturkrigen ta slutt? Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Ny bok setter spørsmålstegn ved dyrs rettigheter. [Journal]. Nationen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Dette er grunnene til at vi behandler noen dyr bra og andre så dårlig. Forskersonen.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Om innstilling til dyr. [Radio]. NRK Studio 2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). HANDS OFF, MENNESKER. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). How Animal Trafficking Became One of the Most Lucrative Industries on the Planet. [Internet]. Sentient. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Presentation of research from Norway: The Development of Enforcement of CITES in Norway: Discretionary Omissions and Theoricides. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Wildlife trade and crime. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Ulovlig handel med truede arter. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodriguez (2021). Ratification, so what? The Norwegian adoption of international wildlife law. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S. B. (2021). Presentation of research from Norway: “Humane Theriocides”: Traces of Compassion for Animals in the Norwegian Legal Discourse on Illegal Bear and Wolf Killings. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Norge skyter ulv ulovlig. Kan vi da forvente at andre land tar vare på sine truede arter? Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Slipp dyrene fri, det er vår! Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2021). Hvor mye skal ulven tåle? Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Goyes, David Rodriguez (2021). Correction to: State‑organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway (Trends in Organized Crime, (2021), 24, 4, (467-484), 10.1007/s12117-021-09420-3). Trends in Organized Crime. ISSN 1084-4791. 24(4), p. 485–485. doi: 10.1007/s12117-021-09427-w. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2020). Urix på lørdag. [Radio]. NRK URIX. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2020). Internasjonale konvensjoner rettferdiggjør handel med ville dyr. [Journal]. Apollon. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine S. B. (2020). An assessment of NGOs’ use of “lawfare” as a strategy to ensure compliance with the Bern Convention and protection of endangered large predators in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Topdahl, Rolv Christian (2020). Mener Kina ikke går langt nok i å forhindre en ny pandemi. [Journal]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Panel and launch of research project. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Handel med ville dyr. [Radio]. NRK Verdibørsen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lie, Martine Synnøve Bergersen (2019). Large predator management versus the intrinsic value of animals. Full text in Research Archive
  • Goyes, David Rodríguez (2019). Legal and moral foundations of CITES and Bern conventions: Priorities, conflicts and ambiguities. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Ystehede, Per Jørgen (2019). International conventions on the wrong track. [Internet]. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Troféjakt, konservering og etikk. [Journal]. Dagens Næringsliv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Ikke lat som om de er beskyttet. [Journal]. Dagsavisen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Crimeanthrope. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ystehede, Per Jørgen & Sollund, Ragnhild (2019). Internasjonale konvensjoner på villspor. [Internet]. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild & Myrtveit, Aase Cathrine (2019). Handel med ville dyr. [Journal]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sollund, Ragnhild (2018). Umoralsk norsk ulvejakt. Full text in Research Archive

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