Routledge Studies in Rural Criminology
About the Book Series
The Routledge Series in Rural Criminology is the first series dedicated to significant criminological and criminal justice issues affecting rural peoples and rural communities. It brings together rural criminology scholars across the world in order to actively apply, critique, and revise criminological theory. More than that, the books in this series show how the implications of their research are key for crime prevention, policing, and criminal justice policy in rural areas.
This series will highlight the best and most innovative research in rural criminology. In doing so it promises to be foundational in the development of this evolving field.
Farm Crime: An International Perspective
1st Edition
By Joseph F. Donnermeyer
June 20, 2025
A little known and under-appreciated area in criminology is knowledge about the extent, pattern, and costs of crime committed against agriculture. Farm Crime: An International Perspective is the first book to summarize the existing literature from across the globe about agricultural victimization. ...
Crime, Peoples and Places: Perspectives on Rural Safety and Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Vania Ceccato, Alistair Harkness
May 05, 2025
Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices. Combining reports on survey findings, country ...
Research Methods for Rural Criminologists
1st Edition
Edited
By Ralph A. Weisheit, Jessica Peterson, Artur Pytlarz
May 27, 2024
Conducting rural criminological research exposes researchers to concerns such as absence or inadequate official data about crime and superficial rural-urban comparisons, rural isolation and distance from the researchers’ office to the study site, and lack of services or access to justice. This ...
Rural Victims of Crime: Representations, Realities and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Hale, Alistair Harkness
December 30, 2022
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...
Woman Abuse in Rural Places
1st Edition
By Walter S. DeKeseredy
May 30, 2022
This book chronicles key contemporary developments in the social scientific study of various types of male-to-female abuse in rural places and suggests new directions in research, theory, and policy. The main objective of this book is not to simply provide a dry recitation of the extant literature ...
Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques
1st Edition
Edited
By Alistair Harkness
February 01, 2022
Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the prevention of rural crime. Rural Crime ...