RT Article
T1 The Reality of Rural Crime: The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 4
SP 1005
OP 1025
A1 Goodall, Orlando
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767109903
AB 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.
K1 rural policy
K1 mundane fauna crime
K1 illegal taking of deer
K1 badger cull
K1 illicit enterprise
K1 Critical Realism
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa095