The Reality of Rural Crime

The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer

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ID8403307
AutoresOrlando Goodall (0000-0001-7349-8493, University of Plymouth, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume61
Fascículo4
Páginas1005-1025
Data de publicação2021-08-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azaa095
OpenAlexW3124096929
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas26

Rural policy has produced the unintended consequences of illegal deer taking and the persecution of badgers in the rural West Country of England. This article directs attention towards the mechanisms of social relations between unregulated industry operatives, rural networks and entrepreneurial premises. Accordingly, the offending process is shown to be one of ‘illicit enterprise’, accomplished for instrumental gain through interdependencies between licit and illicit endeavours—practices that emerge synergistically, upon interaction with wider geo-historical conditions. Crucially, illicit activity is shown to be heavily context dependent, contingencies that generate unanticipated outcomes that are peculiar to the tendencies of the South West. Distal conditions are inserted into the explication to posit the antecedent contexts that inadvertently enable the illegal killing of animals

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Geography · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation