Stephen F. Pires
 | Areas of ExpertiseSituational Crime Prevention | Crime Mapping | Conservation Criminology | Wildlife Crime | Kidnapping for Ransom | International Crime EducationPh.D., Rutgers University-Newark, Criminal Justice, 2012 |
Contact
Office: PCA-368A
Phone: 305.348.4872
Email: sfpires@fiu.edu
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Website: Google Scholar
Biography
Dr. Stephen F. Pires earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He studies the illegal wildlife trade with a particular focus on commonly-poached species (i.e. hot products), illicit markets, & the organization of the illegal trade. In addition to his work on wildlife crime, Dr. Pires has published several articles on how other deviant behavior, such as kidnappings for ransom and illicit smoking, is clustered in space and time while illustrating the benefits of using GIS to inform prevention policy. Dr. Pires has presented his research at numerous conferences and symposia on a national and international scale and has published in a variety of scholarly journals including Biological Conservation, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, British Journal of Criminology, Forest Policy & Economics, Bird Conservation International, Ocean and Coastal Management, Journal of American College Health, Homicide Studies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, and Crime Science. Recently, he co-authored the books, “Wildlife Crime: An Environmental Criminology and Crime Science Perspective” (2018) and “Quantitative Studies in Green and Conservation Criminology” (2019).
Dr. Pires is a member of the American Society of Criminology, Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, Center for Conservation Crime Science at Rutgers University, International Green Criminology Working Group, and the Working Group Psittaciformes of the International Ornithologists’ Union. He is an editorial board member for the journal Global Crime and has served as Guest Editor for the Special Issue on ‘Wildlife Crime’ at the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research in 2015 and co-edited the 2022 Special Issue on "Wildlife Crime: Issues and Promising Solutions" at the journal, Animals.
Select Publications
Pires, S.F. and N. Marteache. (2023). Predicting timber theft based on environmental features: Insights from Humboldt Redwoods State Park, US. Forest Policy and Economics, 148, 102904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102904
Pires, S. F., Thomson, R. W., Petrossian, G. A., & Sosnowski, M. C. (2023). A Social Network Analysis of Large-Scale Wildlife Seizures Made at US Ports of Entry. Deviant Behavior, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2169211
Lebron, A. C., James, N., Pires, S. F., & Cohn, E. G. (2023). An Examination of Article Productivity and Influence among Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Faculty, 2015–2021. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 1-20. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2023.2181979
Dawit, R., Trepka, M. J., Duncan, D. T., Gbadamosi, S. O., Li, T., Pires, S. F., ... & Sheehan, D. M. (2023). Factors associated with geographic patterns of poor sustained viral suppression in Miami-Dade County Florida, 2017. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10(1), 357-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01227-w
Pires, S. F., & Olah, G. (2022). Wildlife crime: issues and promising solutions. Animals, 12(14), 1736. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12141736
Petrossian, G. A., Pires, S. F., Sosnowski, M., Venu, P., & Olah, G. (2022). Threats of Longline Fishing to Global Albatross Diversity. Animals, 12(7), 887. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12070887
Dawit, R., Trepka, M. J., Duncan, D. T., Li, T., Pires, S. F., Brock, P., ... & Sheehan, D. M. (2021). Neighborhood factors associated with racial/ethnic disparities in achieving sustained HIV viral suppression among Miami-Dade County Ryan White Program Clients. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 35(10), 401-410. https://doi.org/10.1089/apc.2021.0067
Pires, S. F., Olah, G., Nandiki, D., Agustina, D., & Heinsohn,R. (2021). What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia. Biological Conservation, 257, 109098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109098