The Natural Resource Crime Lexicon: Parlance, Proxies, and Polemic

Friedo Herbig

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The Natural Resource Crime Lexicon: Parlance, Proxies, and Polemic

Friedo Herbig

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During the last two decades, much has been probed and recorded in the historically discounted realm of natural resource crime and criminality. By and large, it appears that criminological intellectuals acquiesce that crime in this sphere of activity necessitates robust research intervention, and that it be accorded a status equal to that of other more traditional and pejorative crimes, so prevalent in society today. Although accord in this respect may be viewed as accomplished, there remains a nuanced and yet unsettled friction amongst scholars regarding the most astute and ethical terminology to embody and develop this form of crime and its future trajectory. At its heart, lies the argument that poly-discursive rhetoric and lexes cannot be used to justify hegemony over already embedded terms and/or doctrine. Little purchase can be seen in referring to crime in the natural resource ambit by multivalent and/or overbreadth terms. Doing so, subsidizes the myth of an international tolerance thereof crafted purely by the whims of certain authors in the face of an ostensibly weakening role of erstwhile and/or more logical (historiographical) associations. As with many other disciplines, tethering points related to criminal justice are contingent on intelligent interpretation of earlier times for signboards and runes mapping the future. Terms, and by implication, research rigor, are profoundly reliant on the context and explanations provided by raconteurs and erstwhile interlocutors. This evaluation formulates an argument for the abrogation of factionized, ambiguous and confusing natural resource crime nomenclature and the ensconcing of a single fit-for-purpose lexicon, namely conservation crime/criminology, to address issues of natural resource trauma primarily, as well its interface with the social environment as an ancillary, but proportionately significant dimension.

Published in	International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijls.20220502.21
Page(s)	226-241
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Conservation Crime/Criminology, Environmental Crime/Criminology, Proxies, Lexicon, Natural Resources, Semantical/Sociolinguistic Drivers

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  url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijls.20220502.21},
  eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ijls.20220502.21},
  abstract = {During the last two decades, much has been probed and recorded in the historically discounted realm of natural resource crime and criminality. By and large, it appears that criminological intellectuals acquiesce that crime in this sphere of activity necessitates robust research intervention, and that it be accorded a status equal to that of other more traditional and pejorative crimes, so prevalent in society today. Although accord in this respect may be viewed as accomplished, there remains a nuanced and yet unsettled friction amongst scholars regarding the most astute and ethical terminology to embody and develop this form of crime and its future trajectory. At its heart, lies the argument that poly-discursive rhetoric and lexes cannot be used to justify hegemony over already embedded terms and/or doctrine. Little purchase can be seen in referring to crime in the natural resource ambit by multivalent and/or overbreadth terms. Doing so, subsidizes the myth of an international tolerance thereof crafted purely by the whims of certain authors in the face of an ostensibly weakening role of erstwhile and/or more logical (historiographical) associations. As with many other disciplines, tethering points related to criminal justice are contingent on intelligent interpretation of earlier times for signboards and runes mapping the future. Terms, and by implication, research rigor, are profoundly reliant on the context and explanations provided by raconteurs and erstwhile interlocutors. This evaluation formulates an argument for the abrogation of factionized, ambiguous and confusing natural resource crime nomenclature and the ensconcing of a single fit-for-purpose lexicon, namely conservation crime/criminology, to address issues of natural resource trauma primarily, as well its interface with the social environment as an ancillary, but proportionately significant dimension.},
 year = {2022}
}

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TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Natural Resource Crime Lexicon: Parlance, Proxies, and Polemic
AU  - Friedo Herbig
Y1  - 2022/06/27
PY  - 2022
N1  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijls.20220502.21
DO  - 10.11648/j.ijls.20220502.21
T2  - International Journal of Law and Society
JF  - International Journal of Law and Society
JO  - International Journal of Law and Society
SP  - 226
EP  - 241
PB  - Science Publishing Group
SN  - 2640-1908
UR  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijls.20220502.21
AB  - During the last two decades, much has been probed and recorded in the historically discounted realm of natural resource crime and criminality. By and large, it appears that criminological intellectuals acquiesce that crime in this sphere of activity necessitates robust research intervention, and that it be accorded a status equal to that of other more traditional and pejorative crimes, so prevalent in society today. Although accord in this respect may be viewed as accomplished, there remains a nuanced and yet unsettled friction amongst scholars regarding the most astute and ethical terminology to embody and develop this form of crime and its future trajectory. At its heart, lies the argument that poly-discursive rhetoric and lexes cannot be used to justify hegemony over already embedded terms and/or doctrine. Little purchase can be seen in referring to crime in the natural resource ambit by multivalent and/or overbreadth terms. Doing so, subsidizes the myth of an international tolerance thereof crafted purely by the whims of certain authors in the face of an ostensibly weakening role of erstwhile and/or more logical (historiographical) associations. As with many other disciplines, tethering points related to criminal justice are contingent on intelligent interpretation of earlier times for signboards and runes mapping the future. Terms, and by implication, research rigor, are profoundly reliant on the context and explanations provided by raconteurs and erstwhile interlocutors. This evaluation formulates an argument for the abrogation of factionized, ambiguous and confusing natural resource crime nomenclature and the ensconcing of a single fit-for-purpose lexicon, namely conservation crime/criminology, to address issues of natural resource trauma primarily, as well its interface with the social environment as an ancillary, but proportionately significant dimension.
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
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