TY - BOOK ID - 101525566 TI - Crime and safety in the rural : lessons from research AU - Ceccato, Vania. AU - Abraham, Jonatan. PY - 2022 SN - 3030982904 3030982890 PB - Cham Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Crime & criminology KW - rural crime KW - fear of crime in the rural KW - situational crime prevention KW - policing KW - sustainibility UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101525566 AB - Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime and safety in rural areas is a topic of relevance. We attempt to untangle currently simplistic views of the rural by discussing a number of facets of the countryside as both safe and criminogenic, and more importantly, a hybrid place worth to be examined in its own right. We adopt the notion of a rural-urban continuum that captures the nuances of places of varied nature, spanning from remote and desolate spaces to accessible and connected environments of the urban fringe. Areas on the rural-urban continuum may be in constant transformation given local and global influences, which imposes challenges for policing and long-term social sustainability. Then, the book critically reviews a rich body of English-language literature in rural criminology that extends over more than four decades—a scholarship that has engaged researchers and practitioners in all continents. The books finishes with a discussion of the emergent research questions of the field, and offers implications for practice and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. ER -