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Rural Victims of Crime: Representations, Realities and Responses

Rural Victims of Crime: Representations, Realities and Responses

Author: Rachel Hale; Alistair Harkness
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367677633
Published In: December 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Rural Victims of Crime offers a pioneering sustained assessment of ‘the rural victim’. It does so by examining and analysing the conceptual constructs of a victim and challenging the urban bias of victimisation and victimology in criminological study. Indeed, far too much criminological scholarship is based on the false assumption that rural areas are relatively crime free – and thus free, too, of victims.

Providing international perspectives, chapters in this edited collection focus centrally on notions of place and space, and constructions of rural victims in a variety of contexts, exploring the impact that geographic location has on the type and prevalence of victimisation. The concept of victimisation is often considered in terms of interpersonal relationships between humans, neglecting the potent impact of victimisation of non-humans and the natural and built environment. Rural Victims of Crime discusses existing notions of victimology in relation to non-human subjects, broadening conceptualisations of the victim and associated impacts resulting from victimisation. Structured in three parts, Rural Victims of Crime conceptualises the rural victim, enhances understanding of the realities of rural victimisation and considers both formal and informal responses to rural victimisation. Chapters are accompanied by practical, contemporary case studies to connect theory with praxis.

This book is an essential and valuable resource for academics, students and practitioners alike in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, rural studies, victimology, geography, sociology and spatiality.

1.Rural victims of crime in contemporary context - Rachel Hale and Alistair Harkness

PART I – Representations

2.Measuring and researching rural victimisation - Rachel Hale, Alistair Harkness and Kyle J.D. Mulrooney 3.Access to justice for rural victims - Joseph F. Donnermeyer

4.Rurality, crime and fear of crime - Vania Ceccato

PART II – Realities

5.Interpersonal violent victimisation beyond the cityscape - Ethan M. Rogers, Mark T. Berg, James C. Wo and William Alex Pridemore

Case study: Lethality beyond the cityscape

6.Male violence against women in rural places - Walter S. DeKeseredy

Case study: Rural battered women syndrome

7.Victims with disabilities in rural areas - Marg Camilleri

Case study: Barriers to reporting victimisation for rural victims with complex communication needs

8.Victimisation of the vulnerable older rural resident - Barbara Blundell, Emily Moir and Amy Warren

Case study: Applying the crime triangle to Indigenous rural elder abuse

9.Modern slavery in agrarian settings - Richard Byrne and Kreseda Smith

Case study: Farm worker victimisation by an organised criminal gang in the United Kingdom

10.Victims of farm crime - Gorazd Meško and Katja Eman

Case study: Metal rods in corn – when personal resentment exceeds all limits of normal

11.Victims of hate crime in rural communities - Melina Stewart-North, Rachel Hale and George Van Doorn

Case study: Beard cutting as hate crime in a rural Amish community

12.Rural victims of the climate crisis - Rob White

Case study: My home is on fire

13.The natural and built rural environment as victims - Louise Nicholas and Suzie Thomas

Case study: Rio Tinto destruction of Juukan Gorge cave system, Western Australia

PART III – Responses

14.Legal supports and services for rural victims Hannah Haksgaard Case study: South Dakota’s Rural Attorney Recruitment Program

15.Policing rural victims - Danielle Watson, John Scott, Tiffany Sutherland and Lamese Laponi

Case study: Policing rural victims in the Pacific Island State of Tuvalu

16.The provision of support and advocacy for rural victims - Shelly A. McGrath and Melencia Johnson

Case study: Victim advocacy in the Delta Region of the United States

17.Community-level responses to rural victimisation - Tarah Hodgkinson.

Case study: Implementing Safe Growth in North Battleford and Roma

18.Rural victimology scholarship into the future - Rachel Hale and Alistair Harkness

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