Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China

Daan P. van Uhm; Rebecca W. Y. Wong

doi:10.1007/s11417-018-9277-x

Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China

Daan P. van Uhm^*
, Rebecca W. Y. Wong

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Abstract

This study focusses on the role of trust in the illegal distribution of protected wildlife in China. This research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the establishment of trust within the illegal wildlife trade based on ethnographic fieldwork between 2011 and 2016. Both traders and consumers are resorting to mechanisms of trust to foster exchange and to increase credibility of their agreements. This study discusses the existence of such mechanisms of trust within wildlife trafficking networks that are rather characteristic of illegal wildlife trade in China.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23-40
Journal	Asian Journal of Criminology
Volume	14
Issue number	1
Online published	3 Dec 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-018-9277-x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2019

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 15 Life on Land
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Research Keywords

Illegal wildlife trade
Trust
Green criminology
Wildlife crime
China
ORGANIZED-CRIME
GUANXI
CORRUPTION
REPUTATION
BUSINESS
CONSERVATION
CONSUMPTION
BRIBERY
MARKET

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