Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas,
but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and …

In rural sociology and rural studies, rurality in many countries is commonly constructed as an
idyllic space in which crime is perceived as an urban problem. In other countries, however …

The field of event studies has attracted a breadth of research on the triple-bottom line of
economic efficiency, environmental integrity and social equity. The focus of many studies …

One of the significant shortcomings of the criminological canon, including its critical strands—
feminist, cultural and green—has been its urbancentric bias. In this theoretical model, rural …

Rural crime has largely been understood through social disorganization theory. The
dominance of this perspective has meant that most research into rural crime has tried to …

Over the past quarter century, a growing volume of rural-focused criminological work has
emerged. In this article, the literature related to three rural criminological issues are …

An analysis of the depiction of Australia's landscape in its films and literature. Imagined
Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and …

This article responds to green criminology. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the
coal-producing region of Appalachia and the processes of mountaintop removal mining, the …

Beginning in the spring of 2020, a mouse and rat plague spread across the rural grain belt in
New South Wales, Australia. Lasting for almost 10 months, the plague was described by the …

The term 'Gothic'has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often
in arbitrary and divergent ways. This book examines a wide range of Australian films to trace …