Gohar

Petrossian

Dr. Gohar Petrossian is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Executive Officer of the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A crime scientist, her research focuses on crimes against wildlife. She has published more than 70 scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs and is the author of The Last Fish Swimming: The Global Crime of Illegal Fishing (2019). 

Dr Petrossian has served as a panelist and guest speaker for leading international organizations and institutions, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Wildlife and Environmental Crimes Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation-New York, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Flora and Fauna. She has also consulted for a wide range of organizations—including UNODC, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Animal Protection, Fauna & Flora, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, and others—on projects addressing such environmental crime problems as wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, hazardous waste trafficking, illegal gold mining, and the convergence of these crimes with other forms of serious organized crime.

Her research has been featured in Yale Environment Review, National Geographic, PBS Nature, the Center for International Maritime Security, the U.S. Naval Institute, Global Fishing Watch, and CUNY Newswire.