Shoot shovel and sanction yourself: Self-policing as a response to wolf poaching among Swedish hunters.

ABSTRACT: Self-policing is essential for addressing wildlife-related crime where illegal activity is extremely diffuse, and limited resources are available for monitoring and enforcement. Emerging research on self-policing suggest key drivers including economics, folk traditions, and socio-political resistance. We build on this research with a case study evaluating potential drivers of self-policing illegal wolf killing among Swedish hunting teams. Swedish hunters marginally leaned toward considering illegal hunting of wolves an expression of resistance (10.30 out of a possible 17 on a resistance scale) and strongly believed outsiders had undue influence over hunting (15.79 out of a possible 21 on an influence scale). Most (73%) Swedish hunters stated they would report illegal wolf killing to author

SUBMITTER: Peterson MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374224 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature