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Author: Vania Ceccato
ISBN No: 9780415856430
Review date: 21/07/2026
No of pages: 394
Publisher: Routledge
Publisher URL:
https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415856430
Year of publication: 02/10/2015
Brief:
Rural Crime and Community Safety
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 community in rural areas.
Part 1: Introduction 1.Aim, scope and book structure 2. Crime and safety in rural areas 3. Definitions, theory, and research making Part 2: Trends and patterns of crime 4. Rural-urban crime trends in an international perspective 5. The geography of property and violent crime in Sweden Part 3: Perceived safety in rural areas 6. The nature of perceived safety in rural areas 7. Perceived safety in Swedish rural areas Part 4: Crime in a rural context 8. Farm crimes and environmental and wildlife offences 9. Youth in rural areas 10. Violence against women in rural communities Part 5: Policing and crime prevention in rural Sweden 11. Police, rural policing and community safety 12. Prevention of farm crimes and crimes against nature 13. Crime prevention in rural areas: Youth-related challenges 14. Challenges to preventing women abuse in rural communities Part 6: The difference that rural makes 15. Lessons from rural Sweden and looking ahead.
The author Vania Ceccato is Associate Professor at Housing and Safety Research Group at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.
Picture by Mark Rowe: Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
