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Research in Rural Crime

Series Editors: Alistair Harkness, University of New England in New South Wales, Australia and Jessica Peterson, Southern Oregon University, US

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, 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.

Watch the founding editors talk about the series

Call for book proposals

We 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 bebetween 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@une.edu.au
Jessica Peterson petersonj@sou.edu
Rebecca Tomlinson Rebecca.Tomlinson@bristol.ac.uk

Editorial advisory board

Matt Bowden, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Karen Bullock, University of Surrey, UK
Vania Ceccato, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Willie Clack, University of South Africa, South Africa
Walter DeKeseredy, University of West Virginia, US
Rachel Hale, Central Queensland University, Australia
Bridget Harris, Monash University, Australia
Tarah Hodgkinson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Qingli Meng, Independent Researcher, US
Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Christian Mouhanna, Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice Institutions, France
Kyle Mulrooney, University of New England, Australia
Kreseda Smith, Harper Adams University, UK
Danielle Watson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Ralph Weisheit, Illinois State University, US
Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia
Andrew Wooff, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Bristol University Press and the editors of this series acknowledge the late Rick Ruddell who was an inaugural member of the Editorial Advisory Board of this book series.

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Rural Criminology in Global Perspective

State of the Art on the World's Continents

This edited collection crosses international boundaries to highlight rural criminological issues, offering research on rural crime, justice and security from the seven continents with a macroscopic perspective on issues of international concern.

Bristol Uni Press

Dark Tourism and Rural Crime

Crime and Punishment in Rural Australia

This book uses dark tourism case studies to explore the unique considerations and constraints of tourism within rural and regional Australia, and how such sites contribute to Australia’s national identity.

Bristol Uni Press

Gender-based Violence and Rurality in the 21st Century

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Gender-based violence (GBV) and its relationship to rurality is a challenging topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. The book explores patterns of violence in addition to GBV education and prevention, concluding with best practices to positively affect the lives of survivors.

Bristol Uni Press

Rural Transformations and Rural Crime

International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology

In this first book in the Research in Rural Crime series, experts in rural criminology draw from theories of modernity, feminism, climate change, left realism and globalisation in a thought-provoking collection of essays.

Bristol Uni Press