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Building NESTs to combat environmental crime networks
This article begins by providing a brief overview of environmental crime in the Asia and Pacific, highlighting its complexity, varying dimensions and transnational nature. It acknowledges the difficulties in responding to organised criminal groups that operate with flexible modus operandi to commit such crimes. The paper then discusses the importance of the National Environmental Security Taskforce approach, a model developed by INTERPOL to tackle environmental crimes. Collaboration and cooperation, within and between government and non-government organisations, are conceptualised as having a possibly positive ‘panopticon effect’ that has implications for responding to both organised criminal networks and state corruption in this domain.
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Publication title
Trends in Organized CrimeVolume
19Pagination
88-105ISSN
1084-4791Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Springer New York LLCPlace of publication
United StatesRights statement
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