Rural Transformations and Rural Crime

This book explicates the many ways that rural societies experience change: whether that be social change wrought by new economic ordering of the globe centring on technology; or institutional change resulting in the way in which the state and market penetrate civil society in rural areas. These changes themselves pose conceptual and empirical challenges to criminology, to capture the rural experience of crime, victimisation and harm. This book is the first in the Bristol University Press Research in Rural Crime series. As a first volume, the challenge has been to coalesce leading authors in the field to spell out the major achievements and gaps in theory and empirical research in rural criminology. The book, therefore, presents a series of essays that are conceptual and theoretical in nature, benchmarking the state of the art in the field, and which provide an agenda for rural criminology in the coming years.

Criminology · Empirical research · Field (mathematics) · Globe · Harm · Poison control · Political science · Rural area · Social science · Sociology · Spell · State (computer science) · Victimisation · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses