Perspectives on Criminality in Wildlife

CITES, wild plants, and opportunities for crime

“…The SCP framework has been continually refined and extended since its inception (Newman and Freilich 2012), originally being mainly applied to more conventional, high-volume crimes (such as burglary). Our results extend the development of the SCP, showing how a situational approach could be particularly beneficial in a domain -such as the one in wildlife crimes, and specifically wildlife traffickingcharacterised by scarce and poorly resourced policing (Nurse 2011;CITES 2016;Runhovde 2016). In fact, SCP can provide a wide array of potential solutions to draw from, depending on economic (or even political) feasibility.…”

Perceptions and law enforcement of illegal and legal wolf killing in Norway: organized crime or folk crime?

“…Their benefit was unlikely to be economic/material, but they probably found some other benefit in the illegal hunt; for example, removing a potential threat to their dogs and a competitor for prey. I largely leave aside possible emotional motivations, for example, that perpetrators who kill wolves may feel hatred for them (Hagstedt and Korsell, 2012), and that many hunters kill for the thrill of the hunt, for example, playing out ideals of masculinity and so on (Nurse, 2011(Nurse, , 2016Presser and Taylor, 2011;von Essen and Allen, 2014;White, 2013;Sollund, 2016a). Irrational fear of wolves attached to cultural superstitions may also be a contributing factor (Kohm and Greenhill, 2013).…”

“…Wildlife trafficking is often spoken of within the organized crime rhetoric (for example, Nurse, 2011;Schneider, 2012;Wyatt, 2013;UNODC, 2016;Runhovde, 2017), and discussed in relation to, among others, drug crimes and terrorist groups. Such rhetoric may provoke higher prioritization by control and law enforcement agencies, as well as awareness among the public, and consequently have a deterrent effect when such crimes are publically punished.…”

“…They share common values and lifestyles that include hunting, and reject the state predator policy insofar as it protects endangered large predators that may threaten their dogs or sheep, and also live off the prey the hunters seek to kill. While neutralization theory is often applied to illegal hunting (Nurse, 2011;von Essen et al, 2014), those who find nothing wrong with their behaviour because their ARTICLE PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1057DOI: 10. /palcomms.2017 harmful acts are part of doxa (Sollund, 2012) Nurse, 2011;von Essen et al, 2014: 638).…”

Criminalising the right to hunt: European law perspectives on anti-hunting legislation

“…A significant cause of animal harm in fieldsports is masculinities [28,29], allied to the development of a hunting subculture where issues of power, dominance and control predominate and influence anthropocentric attitudes towards animals as existing primarily for human benefit [30,7,31]. Traditional countryside activities such as hunting with dogs in the UK, e.g.…”