EAN: 9783030982898

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN CRIMINOLOGY CRIME AND SAFET...

Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban
realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police
directs resources where the problems are. Yet  there are many reasons why scholars 
decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This
book highlights 20 reasons why crime and safety in rural areas is a topic of relevance. We
attempt to untangle currently simplistic views of the rural by discussing a number of facets of
the countryside as both safe and criminogenic  and more importantly  a hybrid place worth to be
examined in its own right. We adopt the notion of a rural-urban continuum that captures the
nuances of places of varied nature  spanning from remote and desolate spaces to accessible and
connected environments of the urban fringe. Areas on the rural-urban continuum may be in
constant transformation given local and global influences  which imposes challenges for
policing and long-term social sustainability. Then  the book critically reviews a rich body of
English-language literature in rural criminology that extends over more than four decades-a
scholarship that has engaged researchers and practitioners in all continents. The books
finishes with a discussion of the emergent research questions of the field  and offers
implications for practice and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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