New rural crime research – a podcast, a research report and a book!

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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).

Brown and Green Grass Field during Sunset

(Pic credit: Jonathan Petersson, www.pexels.com)

 

Two new publications on rural violence

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A new article has just been published by creative commons (and thus freely available). Written by Walter DeKeseredy, the article offers a sociological review of male-to-female sexual violence in rural communities.

Male-to-Female Sexual Violence in Rural Communities

Also new is a special issue of the journal Violence Against Women which Walter guest edited. The specal issue feature four article and two commentaries centred on “New Ways of Thinking Theoretically about Violence Against Women and Other Forms of Gender-Based Violence”.

Violence Against Women – Volume 27, Number 5, Apr 01, 2021 (sagepub.com)

 

Member in the Spotlight (June 2019): Bridget Harris

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ISSRC founding member and Society Treasurer, Dr Bridget Harris, is this month’s member in the spotlight. You can follow her on Twitter.

Based in the Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Research Centre, School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Bridget works in the areas of domestic and family violence; technology-facilitated violence, advocacy and justice administration; spatiality; access to justice; and legal advocacy.

Bridget actively combines her scholarship with practical outcomes – and has been invited to advise police and legal bodies in her research fields, and her research has informed policy and practice nationally and internationally (including in the Royal Commission into Family Violence and Law Council of Australia’s report, The Justice Project, focused on the state of access to justice in the nation).

Bridget has a long-running interest in rural criminology. In 2014, along with Amanda George, she prepared the ground-breaking Landscapes of Violence report which assessed the multitude of issues facing victims and survivors of family violence in rural and regional Victoria, Australia.

She edited (with Alistair Harkness and David Baker Locating Crime in Context and Place: Perspectives on Regional, Rural and Remote Australia (Federation Press, 2016). She is lead editor, with Delanie Woodlock, of the forthcoming Domestic Violence and Technology: Experiences, Perpetration and Responses (Routledge, 2021).

Bridget has not one but two articles in the May 2019 issue of The British Journal of Criminology (Vol 59 Issue 3) – the first with Delanie Woodlock on digital coercive control and domestic violence and violence against women; and the second with Heather Douglas and Molly Dragiewicz on technology facilitated violence.

Walter DeKeseredy: violence against women in rural areas

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Walter DeKeseredy is the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has written extensively on violence against women, and particularly applying a rural lens to this scourge.

 

Walter was recently in Australia, presenting at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). At RMIT, he presented on the topic “Violence Against Women in Rural Areas – What We Know and What We Don’t Know” which you can view on Youtube.

You can access Walter’s extensive catalogue of works on Researchgate and on Academia.