New rural crime research – a podcast, a research report and a book!
Podcast on violence in rural settings
Director of the Research Centre on Violence at West Virginia University and ISSRC member Dr Walter DeKeseredy – author of the recent Routledge book Women abuse in rural places – has joined with Dr Lillie Macias to deliver a thought-provoking podcast. In it they discuss poly-victimisation in rural LGBTQ communities, crimes towards LGBTQ people and ethnic minorities in rural areas, and the role of the media in building more inclusive spaces.
Research report on ‘illicit entrepreneurialism’ in the United Kingdom
Hot off the press are brand new findings from Dr Kate Tudor from Northumbria University. Kate has been researching an array of issues around the theft of agricultural machinery, plant, equipment and vehicles across rural parts of the United Kingdom. Kate’s report offers an outline of the key issues, the methodologies she adopted and key findings – and importantly and of interest to many scholars and practitioners alike, she offers a series of recommendations.
New rural crime book coming soon!
Dr Alistair Harkness, a co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology at the University of New England (and ISSRC Secretary) and Prof Rob White at the University of Tasmania have produced an edited collection published by Emerald and being released on 19 May. Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside adopts the notion of ‘crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine realities of rural crime, focus on notions of the mobility of crime within, to and from rural spaces. Alistair and Rob expand on the framing of the book in an item in the recent Rurality, Crime and Society newsletter (Vol.2, Iss 1).
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