ORCID
- Goodall, Orlando: 0000-0001-7349-8493
Abstract
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.
DOI
10.1093/bjc/azaa095
Publication Date
2021-08-03
Publication Title
The British Journal of Criminology
Volume
61
Issue
4
First Page
1005
Last Page
1025
ISSN
0007-0955
Embargo Period
2023-01-22
Organisational Unit
School of Society and Culture
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Goodall, O. (2021) 'The Reality of Rural Crime: The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer', The British Journal of Criminology, 61(4), pp. 1005-1025. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa095
