ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with two topics that are relatively neglected areas of research in the criminological literature: farm crime, and environmental and wildlife crime (EWC). It discusses geographical patterns of EWC focusing mostly on urban–rural differences. Farm crime would be ordinary crimes that take place in rural contexts, such as theft of livestock or tractors. As with most other crimes, farm crimes depend on the situational conditions. Situational conditions of farm crime are affected by time. Compared with other crimes reported to the police, the drug production shows relatively low levels, around 1 percent of all the crimes. Each year there are about 5,000 EWCs reported to the police in Sweden. These include the dumping of oil or other chemicals on land or in bodies of water, illegal hunting and fishing, air pollution, illegal construction, deforestation, and some petty crimes, such as the burning of furniture, noise from sawmills, and littering.
