Locating Crime in Context and Place : Perspectives on Regional, Rural and Remote Australia - Alistair Harkness

Locating Crime in Context and Place

Perspectives on Regional, Rural and Remote Australia

By: Alistair Harkness (Editor), Bridget Harris (Editor), David Baker (Editor)

Paperback | 17 December 2015

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The urban focus of crime has dominated the attention of criminologists. Although images of idyllic, crime-free areas beyond the cityscape persist, there is scant academic consideration of the realities and variances of crime across regional, rural and remote Australia. Contributors to Locating Crime explore the nexus between crime and space, examining the complexities that exist in policing, prosecuting and punishing crime in different zones. The various authors draw upon original knowledge and insight and utilise innovative research and an interdisciplinary approach to their work.

The broad theme of Locating Crime is centred on"context, place and space", but several sub-themes emerge too. Contributors grapple with a number of issues: contextualisations of rurality; notions of "access to justice"; the importance of building ‘social capital’; the role of history; and of proactively addressing offending rates with crime prevention measures. This original research adds significantly to criminological understandings of crime in different spaces and offers novel insights of the impact upon victims and communities affected by crime in non-urban environments.

Twelve scholarly chapters are grounded in criminological, legal and socio-legal frameworks and incorporate theoretical and practical knowledge from other fields such as history, sociology, cultural geography, media, cultural studies and Indigenous studies. The contributions from four professionals with expert knowledge of specific facets of criminal justice systems in Australia offer evaluations often absent from scholarly criminological literature. By melding both academic and practitioner discourse into the same work, this book allows a greater appreciation of the nexus between thought and practice.
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In many ways, Australia is a living laboratory for the study of rural crime. Physically, the country is enormous, but, as the book’s introduction notes “ ... 90.5 per cent of the population resides on 0.22 percent of Australia’s land area” (p. 6). As is true in the United States (US) and Canada, Australia’s rural areas are also home to a substantial number of native/Aboriginal people who receive fewer social services than urban residents, but attract higher attention from criminal justice authorities. Although many issues raised in this book match research in other countries, particularly the US, Canada and Great Britain, several authors take pain to describe the importance of Australia’s unique history and remind readers of differences among rural areas in Australia. Each of the 20 authors or co-authors works in Australia and, as such, provide insights that might be missed by outsiders. Many of the authors they cite are also Australian. Thus, the book reminds the reader of the volume of research on rural crime in Australia and the number of individuals who have taken up the study of this subject. … One unique feature of the book is the closing section where criminal justice practitioners who have worked in rural Australia do a splendid job sharing observations about the challenges and unique opportunities afforded by rural settings and articulating issues, putting a human face on the broader issues described by academics in previous chapters. Read full review... - Ralph Weisheit, Rural Society, February 2017

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