NCJ Number
53545
Date Published
1978
Length
13 pages
Annotation
THE TOPIC OF THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY, CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 150 ENTRIES DATING FROM 1919 TO 1978, IS RURAL CRIME.
Abstract
MOST CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN URBAN AREAS, AND RURAL CRIME IS VIEWED AS THE OPPOSITE END OF A CONTINUUM THAT VIEWS CITIES AS CRIMINOGENIC AREAS AND, BY DEFAULT, RURAL AREAS AS RELATIVELY CRIME-FREE. RURAL AREAS ARE NOT CRIME-FREE, ALTHOUGH THE AMOUNT AND SERIOUSNESS OF CRIME IS LESS THAN IN URBAN AREAS. THERE ARE SEVERAL CRIMES OF A TRULY RURAL NATURE, INCLUDING CATTLE RUSTLING AND VIOLATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL LAWS. THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY CITES ARTICLES DEALING WITH THE MAGNITUDE OF RURAL CRIME, TYPES OF CRIME TYPICAL OF RURAL AREAS AND RURAL PEOPLE, ECOLOGICAL STUDIES, REGIONAL STUDIES, VIOLENCE IN SOUTHERN STATES, THE RELATION BETWEEN RURAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND RURAL CRIME, ANOMIE, ALIENATION, DEVIATION PRONENESS IN RURAL AREAS, THE 'FRONTIER' ETHIC, PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME IN RURAL AREAS, POLICE WORK IN RURAL AREAS, CHARACTERISTICS OF RURAL DELINQUENTS AND CRIMINALS, SOCIAL CHANGE AND RURAL CRIME, CRIME AND URBANIZATION, CULTURAL AND SUBCULTURAL FACTORS IN RURAL CRIME, AND SMALL TOWNS AND RURAL CRIME. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON RURAL CRIME NOT CONTAINED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY ARE NOTED.