Responses to Transnational Ecoviolence and Crime

Environmental Rule of Law: Tracking Progress and Charting Future Directions

“…Transnational and regional efforts to fight against environmental crime continue to grow, and increasingly take advantage of new technologies for sharing information (Stoett and Omrow 2021). Some researchers have noted a countertrend to the criminalization of environmental law: a blurring of the line between administrative law and criminal law, sometimes referred to as the 'administrativization' of criminal environmental law (Smith, Galarza and Romero 2020).…”

“…In some cases, governments have employed military-level firearms, counterinsurgency-like strategies and informant networks, and technologies originally developed by the military, among other tactics(Duffy et al 2019). While strong responses to conservation threats are broadly seen as justified, excessive criminalization and militarization is widely criticized as counterproductive and unjust(Goeschl and Jürgens 2014;Stoett and Omrow 2021). Such tactics can alienate local communities, whose cooperation and support is often central to long-term conservation(Duffy et al 2019).…”