ABSTRACT
Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the prevention of rural crime.
Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques critically analyses, challenges, considers and assesses a suite of crime prevention initiatives across an array of international contexts. This book recognises the diversity and distinct features of rural places and the ways that these elements impact on rates, experiences and responses. Crucially, Rural Crime Prevention also incorporates non-academic voices which are embedded throughout the book, linking theory and scholarship with practice.
Proactive responses to rural offending based on sound evidence can serve to facilitate feelings of safety and security throughout communities, enhance individual wellbeing and alleviate pressure on the overburdened and typically under-resourced formal elements of the criminal justice system. This book provides an opportunity to focus on the prevention of crime in regional, rural and remote parts of the globe.
An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology and practitioners interested in learning about the best-practice international approaches to rural crime prevention in the twenty-first century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|78 pages
Theory and context
chapter Chapter 3|13 pages
The development of rational models of crime prevention
chapter Chapter 5|15 pages
The role of modern technology in rural situational crime prevention
part 2|108 pages
Rural people
chapter Practitioner perspective|5 pages
Communities of Shalom and preventing hate crime in rural West Virginia
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
No dress rehearsal, this is our life
chapter Chapter 13|16 pages
Crime prevention in Indigenous communities
chapter Practitioner perspective|5 pages
Structural change to reduce crime in First Nations communities in Saskatchewan, Canada
part 3|114 pages
Rural property, environment and nature
chapter Practitioner perspective|6 pages
The National Rural Safety Strategy in the Free State, South Africa
chapter Practitioner perspective|4 pages
Innovative rural policing approaches in England’s Midlands region
chapter Chapter 17|12 pages
Preventing wildlife crime
part 4|13 pages
Future directions