Crime, Peoples and Places: Perspectives on Rural Safety and Justice [Hardcover]

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimization, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

This comprehensive collection is a global, comparative and critical examination of crime and safety across 19 countries. It is unique in that an identical set of themes  crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices  are the focus of surveys for rural residents around the world. Addressing the intersectionality of safety, this multidisciplinary collection has theoretical and methodological relevance for students and researchers across criminology, law, geography, planning, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, and political science.

Lynda Johnston, Assistant Vice-Chancellor of Sustainability, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Crime, Peoples and Places: Perspectives on Rural Safety and Justice?provides rich insight into the realities of rural communities across the globe as they navigate crime from a contextual standpoint. The collection fills a literary gap in understandings of crime and rurality, and provides enriching perspectives that facilitate comparisons to a wide cross section of issues with relevance to scholars and practitioners from various disciplines across the globe. The collection is as relevant as it is timely, considering countries prioritisation of areas relevant to meeting their sustainable development goals. I strongly recommend the volume for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of crime and safety in rural spaces across the globe.

Danielle Watson, Associate Professor of the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

This book provides a fascinating insight into rural safelã#