Camouflage-Collar Crime: An Examination of Wildlife Crime and Characteristics of Offenders in Florida
This study involved a large-scale analysis of thousands of wildlife crimes in Florida in an effort to uncover a categorization scheme for such offenses, focusing on the nature and extent of crimes and demographic profile of offenders.
[Abstract excerpted from original source.]
“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.”