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The Nature and Extent of Conservation Policing: Law Enforcement Generalists or Conservation Specialists?
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The Nature and Extent of Conservation Policing: Law Enforcement Generalists or Conservation Specialists?

Tara Shelley and Matthew Crow
American journal of criminal justice, Vol.34(1-2), pp.9-27
06/01/2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-008-9057-8
Web of Science ID: WOS:000211154400003

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Abstract

Little is known about law enforcement agencies with responsibility for fish, wildlife, and natural resource protection. Traditional conceptions of fish and wildlife police associate these officers almost entirely with fishing and hunting activities. The relative scarcity of academic literature regarding fish and wildlife police agencies results in a lack of understanding about their role in the criminal justice system in general. The current study seeks to contribute to the limited existing literature by examining conservation policing in Florida, a state not yet studied in this context, by analyzing some 2,910 field events. Findings indicate that officers devote a considerable portion of their attention to traditional law enforcement activities in addition to the type of enforcement customarily associated with fish and wildlife law enforcement.

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