Rural Crime, Poverty, and Community

Title
Rural Crime, Poverty, and Community
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Donnermeyer, JF
Jobes, PC
Barclay, E
Editor
Editor(s): Walter S DeKeseredy & Barbara Perry
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Lexington Books
Place of publication
Lanham, United States of America
Edition
1
Series
Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality
UNE publication id
une:996
Abstract
In this chapter, we begin the development of a cross-community sociological perspective for the examination of crime amongst rural populations. We utilize "community" as the central concept linking broad change and the behaviors of individuals, both as possible perpetrators and victims of crime.Throughout most of the 20th century rural crime ranked among the least studied phenomena in criminology, especially in the US. If rural was considered at all, it was as a convenient "ideal type" contrasted with the criminogenic conditions assumed to exist exclusively in urban locations. Rural crime was rarely examined, either comparatively with urban crime or as a subject worthy of investigation in its own right. Occasional work by Clinard on rural criminal offenders (1942; 1944), Gibbons (1972) and Dinitz (1973) on victimization in rural communities, and Lentz (1956), Feldhusen, Thurston and Ager (1965) and Polk (1969) on rural juvenile delinquency, were early exceptions to the dominant urban focus of the time.
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Citation
Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application, p. 199-218
ISBN
0739112538
Start page
199
End page
218

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