Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimization, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

Vania Ceccato is a professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Alistair Harkness is an associate professor in criminology and Head of the Department of Social and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia

Part 1

1. Victimisation, safety and policing in areas on the rural-urban continuum: Aims, scope and structure
Vania Ceccato and Alistair Harkness

2. Victimisation, safety and policing in rural areas: Evidence from the literature
Vania Ceccato and Alistair Harkness

3. Research design for assessing victimisation, safety and policing in rural areas
Vania Ceccato and Alistair Harkness

Part 2

4. Crime and safety in rural Argentina
Riccardo Valente

5. Crime and safety in rural Australia
Kyle Mulrooney and Alistair Harkness

6. Crime and safety in rural Brazil
Felippe Clemente, Braulio Silva, Vania Ceccato and Viviani Lírio

7. Crime and safety in rural Chile
Alejandra Luneke and Felipe Salazar-Tobar

8. Crime and safety in rural England
Kreseda Smith

9. Crime and safety in rural Germany
Kirstin Drenkhahn and Christoph Nagel

10. Crime and safety in rural India
Andrea Adams, Vaibhavi Maske, Tania Echaporia and Elsa Marie D'Silva

11. Crime and safety in rural Ireland
Nicola Hughes and Matt Bowden

12. Crime and safety in rural Japan
Takahito Shimada and Ai Suzuki

13. Crime and safety in rural Kenya
Emmanuel Bunei and Joseph K. Rono

14. Crime and safety in rural Aotearoa New Zealand
Jade McCormick and Louise Gibson

15. Crime and safety in rural Nigeria
Faisal Umar

16. Crime and safety in rural Portugal
Inês Guedes, Felippe Clemente and Carla Sofia Cardoso

17. Rural crime and safety in Slovenia
Gorazd MeSko and Katja Eman

18. Crime and safety in rural South Africa (North West)
Willie Clack

19. Crime and safety in rural Spain
Nacho Díaz-Castaño and Zora Esteve

20. Crime and safety in rural Sweden
Vania Ceccato

21. Crime and safety in rural United States
Jessica René Peterson

22. Crime and safety in rural Wales
Gareth Norris and Wyn Morris

Part 3

23. Searching for patterns of victimisation and safety perceptions in rural in four countries: Chile, Nigeria, Spain and Sweden
Vania Ceccato, Felipe Salazar-Tobar, Faisal Omar and Ignacio Díaz

24. Police and trust: The cases of Australia, Ireland, Kenya and Slovenia
Alistair Harkness, Nicola Hughes, Emmanuel Bunei and Katja Eman

25. Crime prevention practices: The cases of Australia, Germany, South Africa and England
Alistair Harkness, Kirstin Drenkhahn, Willie Clack and Kreseda Smith

26. Situational precipitators of Environmental and Wildlife Crimes in Namibia and Sweden
Jessica Kahler and Vania Ceccato

27. Assessing women's transit safety in two rural contexts: The cases of India and Sweden
Vania Ceccato and Andrea Adams

28. Queering the Rural: Tales from Poland and Sweden
Vania Ceccato and Emilia Bogacka

29. Farm crime victimisation and punitive attitudes: The cases of Australia and the United States
Jessica René Peterson, Kyle Mulrooney and Alistair Harkness

Part 4

30. Future directions for rural crime research, policy and practice
Alistair Harkness and Vania Ceccato