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dc.contributor.authorBarclay, Elaineen
dc.contributor.authorDonnermeyer, JFen
dc.contributor.authorScott, Johnen
dc.contributor.authorHogg, Russell Georgeen
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-19T12:56:00Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.isbn9781862876354en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2266-
dc.description.abstractAs an academic who has spent a quarter of a century living, lecturing and researching in a rural community, I am often impressed by the discrepancies between the reality of rural life and its image in the public consciousness. At least two aspects of this are the most striking. First, there is often - especially, but not exclusively in English-speaking societies - the idea that rural communities represent the "real" or "true" aspects of a society's culture. For example, judging by the representations of rural Australia in the media, rural life is where we find the true Australian, the laconic, taciturn, but decent everyday man and woman, the "battlers", who are not corrupted by urban life. Such an attribution of genuineness to rurality is especially interesting given that the vast majority of contemporary Australians live in cities and that Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Second, and following from the first point, is the idea that rural areas remain somewhat behind the times, that somehow they are not quite part of the contemporary world. This is a mixed image as it combines both the negative idea of backwardness with the more positive one of a society that has not lost the virtues of stability and civility that we often feel is missing in the city. Both of these ideas combine in the popular image of rural communities as safe places in an increasingly dangerous world. In the popular mind it seems that there is an idea that whatever rural communities may lack in conveniences and sophistication, they remain places where you might walk down the street safely, leave your doors unlocked at night and raise your children confident that they will not be exposed to drugs, gangs and violence. Unfortunately, all of these ideas are fantasies. There is no reason to believe that the residents of rural communities are anymore the truer representations of Australian culture than the average suburbanite.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherFederation Pressen
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dc.titleCrime in Rural Australiaen
dc.typeBooken
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Changeen
local.contributor.firstnameElaineen
local.contributor.firstnameJFen
local.contributor.firstnameJohnen
local.contributor.firstnameRussell Georgeen
local.subject.for2008160805 Social Changeen
local.subject.seo2008970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086359830en
local.profile.schoolInstitute for Rural Futuresen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Lawen
local.profile.emailebarclay@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailjscott6@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailrhogg3@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:4798en
local.publisher.placeSydney, Australiaen
local.format.pages214en
local.contributor.lastnameBarclayen
local.contributor.lastnameDonnermeyeren
local.contributor.lastnameScotten
local.contributor.lastnameHoggen
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local.title.maintitleCrime in Rural Australiaen
local.output.categorydescriptionA3 Book - Editeden
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41551190en
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com.au/books?id=aU7fd3ia2yUCen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862876354en
local.search.authorBarclay, Elaineen
local.search.authorDonnermeyer, JFen
local.search.authorScott, Johnen
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local.year.published2007en
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