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49% of the world s population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusively on urban crimes. "The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology "is the first major publication to bring together this growing body of scholarship under a single cover. For many years rural criminology has remained marginalized and often excluded from the mainstream, with precedence given to urban criminology: this volume intends to address that imbalance.

Pioneering in scope, this book brings together leading international...

Rural crime is a fast growing area of interest among scholars in criminology. From studies of agricultural crime in Australia, to violence against women in Appalachia America, to poaching in Uganda, to land theft in Brazil -- the criminology community has come to recognize that crime manifests itself in rural localities in ways that both conform to and challenge conventional theory and research. For the first time, "Rural Criminology "brings together contemporary research and conceptual considerations to synthesize rural crime studies from a critical perspective.

This book dispels four...