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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, humananimal 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).
Tanya Wyatt is Reader in Criminology at Northumbria University in Newcastle,
UK. She has numerous publications on wildlife trafficking and is currently the coinvestigator on a British Academy funded project exploring Mexico’s role in wildlife
trade and trafficking with the European Union. Tanya was recently the rapporteur for
the Defra, OECD, FCO and US State Department sponsored ‘Wildlife Crime and
International Security: Strengthening Law Enforcement’ workshop at Wilton Park,
UK. She also is currently an advisor to the USAID funded Wildlife Crime
Technology Challenge.