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oapen-20.500.12657-573452022-07-14T03:01:19Z Crime and Safety in the Rural Ceccato, Vania Abraham, Jonatan rural crime fear of crime in the rural situational crime prevention policing sustainibility bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime and safety in rural areas is a topic of relevance. We attempt to untangle currently simplistic views of the rural by discussing a number of facets of the countryside as both safe and criminogenic, and more importantly, a hybrid place worth to be examined in its own right. We adopt the notion of a rural-urban continuum that captures the nuances of places of varied nature, spanning from remote and desolate spaces to accessible and connected environments of the urban fringe. Areas on the rural-urban continuum may be in constant transformation given local and global influences, which imposes challenges for policing and long-term social sustainability. Then, the book critically reviews a rich body of English-language literature in rural criminology that extends over more than four decades—a scholarship that has engaged researchers and practitioners in all continents. The books finishes with a discussion of the emergent research questions of the field, and offers implications for practice and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. 2022-07-13T12:27:30Z 2022-07-13T12:27:30Z 2022 book ONIX_20220713_9783030982904_29 9783030982904 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57345 eng SpringerBriefs in Criminology application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-98290-4.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-98290-4 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-98290-4 10.1007/978-3-030-98290-4 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 84ce70f7-a35a-4f37-aab7-81798d64df1b 9783030982904 Springer International Publishing 123 Cham [...] open access
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Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime and safety in rural areas is a topic of relevance. We attempt to untangle currently simplistic views of the rural by discussing a number of facets of the countryside as both safe and criminogenic, and more importantly, a hybrid place worth to be examined in its own right. We adopt the notion of a rural-urban continuum that captures the nuances of places of varied nature, spanning from remote and desolate spaces to accessible and connected environments of the urban fringe. Areas on the rural-urban continuum may be in constant transformation given local and global influences, which imposes challenges for policing and long-term social sustainability. Then, the book critically reviews a rich body of English-language literature in rural criminology that extends over more than four decades—a scholarship that has engaged researchers and practitioners in all continents. The books finishes with a discussion of the emergent research questions of the field, and offers implications for practice and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
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