Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade - Dimensions, Drivers, Impacts and Responses: A Global Scientific Rapid Response Assessment Report

5 ORGANIZED FOREST CRIME: A CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSISWITH SUGGESTIONS FROMTIMBER FORENSICS

Chapter 5 Organized Forest Crime: A Criminological Analysis with Suggestions fromTimber Forensics Lead author: Tim Boekhout van Solinge Contributing authors: Pieter Zuidema, Mart Vlam, Paolo Omar Cerutti and Valentin Yemelin

CONTENTS

5.1 Introduction: Illegal Timber as a Global Crime Question

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5.2 A Criminological Analysis of Criminal Timber Actors and Networks

5.3 Facilitators of Organized Forest Crime

5.3.1 Illegal Facilitators 5.3.2 Legal Facilitators

5.3.3 Oppor tunity Structures

5.4 Criminological Tools

5.4.1 Clearly Defining the Crime Issue: Serious Crime or Organized Forest Crime

5.4.2 Situational Crime Prevention

5.4.3 Community Forest Watch Suppor ted by (GPS) Technology

5.4.4 Addressing Corporate Crime

5.5 Forensic Tools for Better Governance and Criminal Timber Investigations

5.5.1 Overview and Applicability of Forensic Tools

5.5.2 The Need for Reference Databases

5.6 Conclusions

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