In this first book in the Research in Rural Crime series, experts in rural criminology draw from theories of modernity, feminism, climate change, left realism and globalisation in a thought-provoking collection of essays.

Matt Bowden is a Senior Lecturer at the Technological University Dublin and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia.

Alistair Harkness is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Criminology at the University of New England, Australia.