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‘I Don’t See Myself as a Criminal’: Motivation and Neutralization of Illegal Hunting by Swedish Norrland Hunters

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This chapter explores the roles of motivation and neutralization in illegal hunting in Sweden. Illegal hunting requires motive and opportunity and may be enabled through perpetrators being able to neutralize their actions. To explain the driving forces behind illegal hunting, I use an explanatory model that includes vocalized motives, techniques of neutralization, and accounts that hunters employ.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Lund University, Box 114, 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Emil Rytterstedt

  2. Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University, Box 42, 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Emil Rytterstedt

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  1. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Gary R. Potter

  2. Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

    Angus Nurse

  3. University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Matthew Hall

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Rytterstedt, E. (2016). ‘I Don’t See Myself as a Criminal’: Motivation and Neutralization of Illegal Hunting by Swedish Norrland Hunters. In: Potter, G., Nurse, A., Hall, M. (eds) The Geography of Environmental Crime. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53843-7_9

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