RT Article
T1 State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 24
IS 4
SP 467
OP 484
A1 Sollund, Ragnhild Aslaug 1959-
A2 Goyes, David R.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1784398144
AB While scholars of state crime and organized crime have frequently explored the intersection of these fields with green criminology, for the most part they have not brought the two together as organized state criminality as a means to explore environmental destruction. Of the few explorations of organized state green crime that do exist, most do not embrace a non-speciesist perspective. In this article, we develop a non-speciesist theory of organized state green crime to explain the Norwegian state-licensed killing of wolves, a phenomenon that we analyze through the use of the concept ideological inertia. Our main argument is that the underlying cultural, political and economic interests that were prioritized up to the 1970s in Norway continue to have a counteracting effect on the protection of large carnivores, which the country committed to as a signatory to the Bern Convention.
K1 Wolf
K1 Tötung
K1 Wolf policy
K1 Organized state crime
K1 Non-speciesist criminology
K1 Ideological inertia
K1 Norwegen
DO 10.1007/s12117-021-09420-3