Crime Causation and Criminal Justice Policy- CJ 593
Professor M.J. Smith
Haylie Galvan
2/23/2017
The study conducted looked at the illegal trade in South Africa, and analyzed how the routine activity perceptive could be used to help the local law enforcement. The researchers used a variety of study methods to establish the different causes of the illegal trade of sea snails. Some of their methods included observations and in-depth interviews. Observing these poachers helped allow the researchers to “experience and then analyze the behaviors and interactions of the subjects of the study” (Warchol and Harington, 2016, p.29). In their findings, they discovered that sea snails were considered