Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China

This study focusses on the role of trust in the illegal distribution of protected wildlife in China. This research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the establishment of trust within the illegal wildlife trade based on ethnographic fieldwork between 2011 and 2016. Both trader...

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Published in:Asian journal of criminology 2019-03, Vol.14 (1), p.23-40
Main Authors: van Uhm, Daan P., Wong, Rebecca W. Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Criminology
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Endangered & extinct species
Ethnography
Law
Law and Criminolgy
Original Paper
Poaching
Political Science
Social Sciences
Trust
Wildlife
Wildlife trade
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Summary:This study focusses on the role of trust in the illegal distribution of protected wildlife in China. This research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the establishment of trust within the illegal wildlife trade based on ethnographic fieldwork between 2011 and 2016. Both traders and consumers are resorting to mechanisms of trust to foster exchange and to increase credibility of their agreements. This study discusses the existence of such mechanisms of trust within wildlife trafficking networks that are rather characteristic of illegal wildlife trade in China.
ISSN:1871-0131
1871-014X
DOI:10.1007/s11417-018-9277-x