ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the farm crime and crimes against nature and wildlife. Preventing crime is difficult, but it is even more challenging to prevent farm crime. One of the main difficulties is lack of useful data, especially from official sources. Another issue is that farm crime and its prevention may depend more on context than other forms of big-city crime do. Crime prevention groups in rural areas appear to be prepared to tackle farm crime “if something happens,” or at least they have the organization to deal with this offense. It is estimated that the cost of diesel theft was around SEK200 million in Sweden in 2013. Environmental crime prevention in rural areas faces a unique challenge – its location. In Sweden, environmental issues and environmental harm became the central focus in the 1990s with the introduction of Environmental Code in 1999 and the establishment of a new organization in the police and the prosecution service for combating environmental crime.
