The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology

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.

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:

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• Rurality and crime
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• Criminological dimensions of food and agriculture
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• Violence and rurality
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• Drug use, production and trafficking in the rural context
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• Intersections between rural and green criminology
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• Policing, justice and rurality
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• Teaching rural criminology
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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.

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