Quantitative Studies in Green and Conservation Criminology

Michael J. Lynch is a professor in the department of criminology, University of South Florida. He has examined green crime, law and justice issues for over thirty years, and published the first discussion of green criminology. His recent publications have appeared in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Ecological Economics; Global Ecology and Conservation; Society and Natural Resources; Journal of Quantitative Criminology; Theoretical Criminology; Deviant Behavior; and Sociological Spectrum, among others. He is recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice, and the Division on White Collar and Corporate Crime. Stephen Pires, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. He is an expert on the illegal wildlife trade with a particular focus on commonly-poached species (i.e. hot products), illicit markets, & the organization of the illegal trade. His work has appeared in the Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, The British Journal of Criminology, Bird Conservational International, and Forest Policy & Economics, and has co-authored the book, Wildlife Crime: An Environmental Criminology and Crime Science Perspective (2018).