The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology

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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Notes on contributors List of abbreviations 1 Introduction to the International Handbook of Rural Criminology Section 1 Rurality and crime 2 Civic community and violence in rural communities 3 Research on social disorganization theory and crime in rural communities 4 Factors affecting crime rates in six rural Indigenous communities 5 Crime and response in rural Japan 6 The importance of context: understanding the nature of antisocial behaviour in rural Scotland 7 From myth to myth: rural criminology in France 8 Rural prostitution 9 Homies of the corn: gangs in the rural environment 10 The nomadic pastoralist, the fisherman and the pirate: a historical overview of the rural dimensions of piracy in Somalia Section 2 Criminological dimensions of food and agriculture 11 Farm victimisation: the quintessential rural crime 12 Agricultural crime in Africa: trends and perspectives 13 Criminal farmers and organised rural crime groups: a UK case study 14 Understanding farm animal abuse: legal and extra-legal factors 15 Human trafficking, labor exploitation and exposure to environmental hazards: the abuse of farmworkers in the US 16 Modern slavery and agriculture Section 3 Violence and rurality 17 Intimate violence against women in rural communities 18 Crime and violence outside the metropole: an Australian case study 19 Intimate violence and abuse in Australian rural contexts 20 Rural bullying: an overview of findings from the Rural Adaptation Project 21 Crime and victimization in rural Brazil 22 Corruption and land use expropriation in rural China Section 4 Drug use, production and trafficking in the rural context 23 Drug production in the rural context 24 Rural adolescent substance use: community causes and cures 25 The rural context of substance misuse in the United States: emerging adult patterns and local perceptions following the Great Recession 26 Approaching rural drug issues from the perspective of community psychology: the relevance of community-mindedness in peer-oriented intervention 27 Methamphetamine and the changing rhetoric of drugs in the United States Section 5 The intersection of rural and green criminologies 28 Fractured earth, forced labour: a green criminological analysis of rights and the exploitation of landscapes and workers in rural contexts 29 Re-conceptualising folk crime in rural contexts 30 Conservation crime as political protest 31 Illegal hunting: between social and criminal justice 32 Illegal hunting as rural defiance 33 Jumping from the frying pan into the fire: a criminological study of forest fire-setting in Spain Section 6 Policing, justice and rurality 34 Policing rural Indigenous communities: an examination of practices in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States 35 Indigenous peoples and rural criminology 36 Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom 37 Crime and policing in Swedish rural areas 38 Policing rural Canada 39 Community law enforcement in rural Tanzania 40 China’s social transformation and the development of rural community corrections Section 7 Teaching rural criminology 41 Teaching rural criminology: topics and issues 42 Lessons for scholarizing from contributions to the International Index "Forty-nine percent 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."--Provided by publisher Rural Criminology is increasingly becoming a major subfield of Criminology. This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss major topics on Rural Criminology and offers a detailed synthesis of the literature on rural crime.