Illegal trade in wildlife, illegal logging and timber trading, unregulated fishing, illegal coral harvesting, as well as the illicit trade of waste and smuggling of ozone-depleting substances are, along with other environmental crimes, detrimentally affecting the quality of air, water, and soil, threatening the survival of fauna and flora, causing irreparable damage to our planet, along with placing a heavy burden on both human health and the economic livelihood of billions of people across the globe. However, despite the nascent global awareness of environmental crimes, this area of scientific inquiry requires further investigation by means of rigorous methods to produce sound empirical knowledge that can inform law enforcement activities and criminal justice systems, and advise policy makers. More specifically, several scholars have highlighted the need to produce new solid empirical research on environmental crimes, and recommended utilizing quantitative methods that have hitherto been neglected in this field (Lynch et al., 2017; Lynch & Pires, 2019; Nobles, 2019).

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加强环境犯罪研究的新方法和加强犯罪预防的新手段

野生动植物的非法贸易，非法的伐木和木材贸易，不规范的捕捞，非法的珊瑚采伐以及废物和走私消耗臭氧层物质的非法贸易，连同其他环境犯罪，都对空气，水的质量，土壤和土壤，威胁着动植物的生存，对我们的星球造成了不可弥补的损害，同时也给人类健康和全球数十亿人口的经济生计带来沉重负担。但是，尽管全球范围内对环境犯罪的意识尚处于萌芽状态，但这一科学探究领域仍需要通过严格的方法进行进一步调查，以产生可靠的经验知识，这些知识可以为执法活动和刑事司法系统提供信息，并为决策者提供建议。进一步来说，