While scholarship in rural criminology has grown over the past twenty years, extensive studies related to the criminological dimensions of food and agriculture remain scattered. This book offers a much needed synthesis of a wide literature on the criminology of food and agriculture, drawing on international topics such as farm victimization, land theft and bio-piracy, the abuse and trafficking of farmworkers and farm animals, farmer involvement in organized and violent crime. Written by a pioneer of rural criminology, this landmark book offers an important contribution in the development of...