ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to unravel simplistic views of rural areas as crime-free and/or “strange” or dangerous by discussing a number of issues that reveal rural areas as both safe and criminogenic. It compares crime rates and prevalence in Sweden with those in the United States and the United Kingdom. The book then attempts to illustrate that the safety perceived by people living in rural areas is a more complex phenomenon than overall expressions of fear of crime suggest. It also focuses on the farm crime and the environmental and the wildlife crime and to a lesser extent, it touches on rural production of narcotics. The book points out the barriers women living in rural areas face when reporting violence, particularly when the perpetrator is known to the victim.
