New rural crime book series!

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‘RESEARCH IN RURAL CRIME’ BOOK SERIES

 

Myths about peaceful, crime-free areas beyond the cityscape persist, but in fact rural crime is multi-faceted, raising new policy predicaments about policing and security governance. With approximately 46 percent of the global population living in rural areas, a focus on rural crime in these diverse communities is critical.

Filling a gap in the discipline, the ‘Research in Rural Crime’ series – published by Bristol University Press – provides an outlet for original, cutting-edge research in this emergent criminological subfield. Truly international in nature, it leads the way for new research and writing on a wide range of rural crime topics, rural transgressions, security and justice.

The series editors would welcome monograph-length titles that are jurisdictional specific or related to themes that transcend political and juridical boundaries, presenting outlooks on contemporary and pressing public policy issues. Contributors to this series present pioneering interdisciplinary and comparative rural criminological perspectives. Titles will be theoretically and conceptually driven, empirical or adopting mixed-methods approaches, and topics will focus on regional, rural and remote parts of the globe that are often overlooked in criminological works. Books in this series can be sole or joint authored, or edited collections, and will be between 60,000 and 80,000 words in length.

If you would like to submit a proposal or discuss ideas, then please contact the Series Editors:

Alistair Harkness alistair.harkness@federation.edu.au
Matt Bowden matt.bowden@TUDublin.ie

Further information can be accessed at https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/research-in-rural-crime

New book – “Rural Crime Prevention”

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A new book entitled Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques, edited by our Secretary Alistair Harkness, will be published in April 2020 by Routledge. The book brings toghether 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 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.

Pre-orders are availble via the Routledge website, and a 20 percent discount is offered if using the code in this flier: authorflyerbeforepub

 

Latest issue of the International Journal of Rural Criminology out now

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(Post by Joe Donnermeyer)

Volume 5, Issue 1 of IJRC is now available through the OSU Knowledge Bank or through the following links:

https://doi.org/10.18061/1811/88724 or https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/88724

 

This issue is a special issue, edited by Alistair Harkness, based on a rural-focused workshop attended by about two dozen scholars held in February, 2019 at the Gippsland campus of Federation University in Victoria, Australia. This workshop was funded by The Academy of the Social Science in Australia, with participants coming from many different universities and an equal diversity of disciplines. To quote Alistair Harkness from the editor’s introduction:

“This Workshop, I believe, serves as an exemplar of the unity of purpose of cross-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional colleagues with an interest in improving circumstances and outcomes for rural communities, and perhaps might be a model that could be replicated in various other jurisdictions.”

I hope you enjoy reading all of the contributions over the holidays.