PART V Geographic Status of Rural Criminological Research
Despite rural criminology’s origins dating back to the 1930s, the growth of rural criminology has not been even across the globe. The ‘big four’ academic bases of rural criminological study – the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and to a slightly lesser extent Canada – have hitherto dominated the scholarship landscape in book chapter and journal article form. This is, in part, attributable to the lure of wealthier, better-resourced institutions which happen to be located in these parts of the world. That is, scholars will relocate across borders
Introduction As the title of this chapter states, it is about both theoretical and empirical gaps in rural criminology. For the purposes of this chapter, a gap will be defined as: first, a failure to develop rural-based theory and/or to actively conduct research on particular rural criminological topics; second, a failure to apply theory to help define research or, reciprocally, apply research to help revise and upgrade theory; and third, a failure to apply both theory and research to the development of crime prevention and criminal justice strategies for the
ultimately invited Paul to join the band which later transformed into The Beatles. Similarly, in academia, as with so many other facets of life, unplanned encounters can have quite profound transformative outcomes. Let’s consider the journeys into rural criminology of the authors of this chapter. Alistair Harkness transitioned back into academia in 2011 after a hiatus. A colleague sagely suggested that he find a research niche and, given the university where they worked was in a regional location, a focus on farm crime was chosen largely because of the paucity of focus
contradictory – ways in which the rural and rural people are represented in popular discourse. It contemplates some of these themes through the lens of rural criminology as a newly emerging subdiscipline, drawing primarily from the work of Donnermeyer and DeKeseredy (2014) . Third, the chapter provides an overview of the various contributions in this book. The rural: badlands or promised land? Bruce Springsteen’s album Darkness at the Edge of Town speaks, as do so many in Springsteen’s oeuvre, of hard times, of the edge and of the space beyond the city limits. It
The key reference guide to rural crime and rural justice, this encyclopedia includes 85 concise and informative entries covering rural crime theories, offences and control. It is divided into five complementary sections:
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