Crime in Rural Australia

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Elaine Barclay
Federation Press, 2007 - Political Science - 214 pages
Contemporary rural crime is becoming more varied and sophisticated. The new forms range from agricultural crimes to environmental crimes. They take place side by side with traditional rural crimes, such as cattle duffing, while "urban" crimes, such as drug and alcohol abuse, are also prevalent and on the rise. Crime in Rural Australia covers them all. It brings together leading academics who examine the major dimensions of crime and justice in rural and regional Australia including the extent of rural crime, farm crime, violence, juvenile crime, policing, Indigenous crime and justice, crime prevention, drugs, fear of crime, and sentencing and punishment. It includes vignettes on rural policing and the stock squad from the perspectives of the New South Wales police. An ideal text for rural crime and criminology courses, Crime in Rural Australia will also be of interest to criminal justice practitioners, policy-makers, and criminology scholars.
 

Contents

Introduction Theres crime out there but not as we know it Rural criminology the last frontier
1
Locating rural crime The role of theory
15
Crime in rural and regional areas
27
Community and crime in rural Australia
44
Farm victimisation The quintessential rural crime
57
Alcohol and drug problems in rural and regional Australia
72
Youth Programs
86
Violence and the architecture of rural life
88
Policing in rural Australia The country cop as law enforcer and local resident
127
Rural Policing
138
Crime justice and Indigenous people
142
Crime prevention and rural communities
154
Punishment and the courts in rural communities
167
A View from the Bench
182
References
184
Index
205

Young people and crime in rural communities
100
Fear law and order and politics Tales of two rural towns
115

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