New book: Rural Crime Prevention

A new book entitled Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques, edited by our Secretary Alistair Harkness and published by Routledge, is now available. The book brings together 20 academic chapters and 12 practitioner perspectives, and critically analyses, challenges, considers and assesses a suite of crime prevention initiatives across an array of international rural contexts.

This book recognises the diversity and distinct features of rural places and the ways that these elements impact on rates, experiences and responses. Crucially, Rural Crime Prevention also incorporates non-academic voices which are embedded throughout the book, linking theory and scholarship with practice.

Proactive responses to rural offending based on sound evidence can serve to facilitate feelings of safety and security throughout communities, enhance individual wellbeing and alleviate pressure on the overburdened and typically under-resourced formal elements of the criminal justice system. This book provides an opportunity to focus on the prevention of crime in regional, rural and remote parts of the globe.

An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology and practitioners interested in learning about the best-practice international approaches to rural crime prevention in the twenty-first century.

Personal and instutional purchases of the book in either hard copy or e-book form can be made on the Routledge website, and a 20 percent discount is offered if using the code in this flier: Rural Crime Prevention flier