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Dr Jennifer Maher is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology, University of
South Wales. Her research interests include animal abuse, green criminology,
human-animal studies, and youth and gang violence. She recently concluded a
UK wildlife trafficking study for the FP7 (European Commission) EFFACE project
which evaluated the impact of environmental crime in Europe and is currently
researching puppy smuggling for the Scottish and English Governments. Her

publications include co-editing Greening Criminology in the 21st Century (2016,
Routledge, with M. Hall et al.) and the special journal issue ‘Animal Abuse and
Criminology’ in Crime, Law and Social Change (2011 with P. Beirne).
Dr Harriet Pierpoint is a Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the
Centre for Criminology at University of South Wales. Her research interests relate
to criminal process and vulnerable people, and, more recently, animal abuse. She
has undertaken a number of funded research projects including for the Youth
Justice Board, Home Office, Ministry of Justice and the National Offender
Management Service Cymru and has publications in internationally recognised,
peer reviewed journals, such as Policing and Society: An International Journal and
Criminology and Criminal Justice: The International Journal. She is a co-editor of