This chapter starts by listing 20 reasons why crime and safety in rural areas is a subject worth examining in its own right. The authors present reasons from common misconceptions of crime in rural areas to illustrations of how globalization and climate change link to crime and safety in areas on the rural-urban continuum, as well as how all these are associated with rural development and sustainability.
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Ceccato, V., Abraham, J. (2022). Reasons why crime and safety in rural areas matter. In: Crime and Safety in the Rural. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98290-4_2
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