Irregularly regulated collecting markets: antiquities, fossils, and wildlife
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study explores how inconsistent laws create criminal opportunities in markets for antiquities, fossils, and wildlife. Understanding
Area Of Science
- Sociology of Crime
- Market Regulation Studies
- Cultural Heritage Law
Background
- Markets for antiquities, fossils, and wildlife often operate under 'irregular regulation'.
- Inconsistencies and loopholes in legal frameworks facilitate criminal activities within these sectors.
- The concept of 'criminogenic collectables' highlights objects that are particularly vulnerable to illicit trade.
Purpose Of The Study
- To examine the dynamics of irregularly regulated markets for criminogenic collectables.
- To analyze how legal inconsistencies contribute to criminal behavior in these specific markets.
- To introduce 'irregularity' as a framework for understanding global markets in contested objects.
Main Methods
- Analysis of legal frameworks and their inconsistencies related to antiquities, fossils, and wildlife trade.
- Examination of five dimensions of market irregularity: social, jurisdictional, temporal, cultural, and discursive.
- Exploration of the subjective nature of legality influenced by cultural, economic, and political factors.
Main Results
- Markets for criminogenic collectables exhibit irregularity across social, jurisdictional, temporal, cultural, and discursive dimensions.
- Market actors actively manipulate perceptions to exploit legal grey areas.
- The agency of the objects themselves, alongside regulatory frameworks, influences criminal behavior.
Conclusions
- The concept of 'irregularity' provides a valuable hermeneutic tool for analyzing complex global markets for contested objects.
- Understanding market regulation and the agentic qualities of objects is crucial for addressing crime in these sectors.
- This study offers a nuanced perspective on the sociology of crime by incorporating the objects of criminal activity.
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