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This chapter examines criminality in wildlife crime, a distinct aspect of green criminology (Beirne and South, 2007; Lynch and Stretesky, 2003) within animal abuse (Henry, 2004; Linzey, 2009) and species justice discourse (White, 2008). The legal protection afforded to animals is socially constructed, influenced by social locations, power relations in society, and the need to both promote and protect specific ideological positions on animals by legislators and policymakers. Attitudes towards wild animals both on the part of offenders who harm them and the society that punishes them, or in some cases allows the harm to continue, reveal much about tolerance for different forms of violence within society, sympathy towards the suffering of others, the capacity for empathy (Beetz, 2009), or an inclination towards violence or other forms of antisocial behaviour (Linzey. 2009).
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Nurse, A. (2013). Perspectives on Criminality in Wildlife. In: Walters, R., Westerhuis, D.S., Wyatt, T. (eds) Emerging Issues in Green Criminology. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273994_8
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