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Title Crossroads of rural crime : representations and realities of transgression in the Australian countryside / edited by Alistair Harkness and Rob White
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2021

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Contents Chapter 1. Rural crime at the crossroads / Alistair Harkness and Rob White -- Chapter 2. Dhany 'towards here': Paths for rural criminology laid by Aboriginal health / Megan Williams -- Chapter 3. Cartographies of place: Being, country and Indigenous justice / Chris Cunneen -- Chapter 4. Night patrols: Mobilising collective efficacy in Indigenous communities / John Scott, Margaret Sims, Trudi Cooper, and Elaine Barclay -- Chapter 5. On the road to roon?: Rural Australia's storied role in the nation's ice 'epidemic' / Katrina Clifford and Lisa Waller -- Chapter 6. The backroads of Australian punishment: Penality beyond the Australian cityscape / Russell Hogg -- Chapter 7. Dead ends: The vanishing of Marilyn Wallman / Belinda Morrissey and Kristen Davis -- Chapter 8. From victims to companions: Reconciling wildlife and agriculture in rural spaces / Gillian Paxton -- Chapter 9. The rhetoric of rurality: Political representations of rural and regional Australia / Rebecca Strating -- Chapter 10. Kicking against the majority: The rural-urban divide, politics, policy-making and the law-and-order debate / Nick Economou -- Chapter 11. Dynamics of seachangers in rural and regional townships: Impacts on local communities in transition / Nick Osbaldiston, Felicity Picken, and Lisa Denny -- Chapter 12. Post-disaster access to justice: The road ahead for Australian rural communities / Rachel Hale, Melina Stewart-North, and Alistair Harkness
Summary Using the notion of 'crossroads' to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crimeprovides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide
Notes Includes index
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2021)
Subject Rural crimes -- Australia
Criminology -- Australia
Crime & criminology.
Social Science -- Criminology.
Criminology
Rural crimes
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Harkness, Alistair, editor.
White, R. D. (Robert Douglas), 1956- editor.
ISBN 9781800436442
1800436440
1800436467
9781800436466