ABSTRACT
49% of the world’s population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusively on urban crimes. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology is the first major publication to bring together this growing body of scholarship under a single cover. For many years rural criminology has remained marginalized and often excluded from the mainstream, with precedence given to urban criminology: this volume intends to address that imbalance.
Pioneering in scope, this book brings together leading international scholars from fourteen different countries to offer an authoritative synthesis of theoretical and empirical literature. This handbook is divided in to seven parts, each addressing a different aspect of rural criminology:
- Rurality and crime
- Criminological dimensions of food and agriculture
- Violence and rurality
- Drug use, production and trafficking in the rural context
- Intersections between rural and green criminology
- Policing, justice and rurality
- Teaching rural criminology
Edited by a world renowned scholar of rural criminology, this book explores rural crime issues in over thirty-five countries including Japan, Sweden, Brazil, Australia, Tanzania, the US, and the UK. This is the first Handbook dedicated to rural criminology and is an essential resource for criminologists, sociologists and social geographers engaged with rural studies and crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|91 pages
Rurality and crime
chapter 6|9 pages
The importance of context
chapter 10|9 pages
The nomadic pastoralist, the fisherman and the pirate
section 2|63 pages
Criminological dimensions of food and agriculture
chapter 15|9 pages
Human trafficking, labor exploitation and exposure to environmental hazards
section 3|65 pages
Violence and rurality
section 4|51 pages
Drug use, production and trafficking in the rural context
chapter 25|11 pages
The rural context of substance misuse in the United States
chapter 26|9 pages
Approaching rural drug issues from the perspective of community psychology
section 5|65 pages
The intersection of rural and green criminologies
chapter 28|9 pages
Fractured earth, forced labour
chapter 33|11 pages
Jumping from the frying pan into the fire
section 6|78 pages
Policing, justice and rurality
chapter 34|10 pages
Policing rural Indigenous communities
section 7|19 pages
Teaching rural criminology