Rural Crime

In this podcast, Kyle and Alistair speak with Dr. Kate Tudor and her research around the theft of plant and agricultural machinery and vehicles, including the role of organised crimes and responsibilities of governments and companies to combat this issue.

Dr. Tudor is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Durham University in the United Kingdom. Her research interests broadly relate to the intersections between crime, harm and political economy. She has conducted empirical research with serious fraudsters which examines the relationship between late-capitalism and illicit entrepreneurial forms. Most recently, Kate has carried out extensive research around rural and organised crime which has involved working with offenders, victims, police and the Home Office.

In the episode of Rural Crime, we speak with Jack Beetson about literacy in Indigenous communities and its socio-cultural implications. The conversation pays particular attention to how the issue of literacy overlaps with rurality and the criminal justice system. Jack speaks of the importance of empowering Indigenous communities to value learning and how the Literacy for Life Foundation is addressing this pressing issue.

Professor Jack Beetson is Executive Director of the Literacy for Life Foundation. He’s a Ngemba man who has been working in Indigenous education for many years. Jack’s expertise has been recognised around the globe – he has received a United Nations Unsung Hero Award, a Cuba Award and several other honours.

In this episode of Rural Crime we speak with Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart about his work on convict life in Australia, with particular attention to crime over the life-course and the role of rurality.

Biography: After graduating with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Hamish worked for the Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow until 1997 when he migrated to Australia. As a Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania, he co-designed the highly successful Lottery of Life exhibition which ran at Port Arthur from 1999-2018. In 2000 he was appointed to the teaching staff in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania where he worked until 2011 when he was appointed as a visiting fellow at the University of Texas. The following year he took up the Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History at University College Dublin. On his return to the University of Tasmania in 2013 he was appointed Associate Dean Research, for the Faculty of Arts, a position he held until 2016. During that time he established a highly successful diploma in Family History as well as teaching World History at first year level. After a highly successful 23 years at the University of Tasmania he joined the History and Archaeology team at UNE in April 2021.

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In this episode of Rural Crime, Alistair and Kyle speak with Professor Walter Dekeseredy about woman abuse and family violence in rural spaces and his new book 'Woman Abuse in Rural Places': https://www.routledge.com/Woman-Abuse...

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 27 books, over 120 scientific journal articles and 90 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. In 2008, the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma gave him the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award. He also jointly received the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) and in 2008 the DCC gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015, he received the Career Achievement Award from the ASC's Division on Victimology. In 2017, he received the Impact Award from the ACJS’s section on Victimology and the Robert Jerrin Book Award from the ASC’s Division on Victimology.

In this episode of Rural Crime we speak with Professor Joe Donnermeyer about the Future of Rural Criminology as a field, a cover a range of key and current issues in rural crime and society from rural politics to the role of space is criminological theory.

Joe is a professor emeritus in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and an adjunct professor at both the Center on Research on Violence at West Virginia University and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. Joe’s specialisation is rural criminology. He is the author/co-author of over 100 peer reviewed publications issues related to rural crime and rural societies. He was the editor of Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology (2016), is currently preparing the Criminology of Food and Agriculture (a monograph for Routledge), and is the editor of the new Routledge Monograph Series in Rural Criminology.

Joe was a visiting academic in the School of Social Science at the University of New England on several occasions in the past, working collaboratively with various scholars on issues of rural crime in Australia. He is a co-founder of both the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime and the Division of Rural Criminology in the American Society of Criminology. He is the founder and currently serves as the editor of the International Journal of Rural Criminology.

In this episode of Rural Crime we speak with Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Rob White. Rob is an eminent Criminologist having researched a published extensively across a number of areas from crime prevention and criminological theory to youth studies and rural criminology. See more about Rob here

Rob is also a pioneer in the field of Green Criminology which examines a broad spectrum of issues including transnational environmental crime, pollution crime, water theft and illegal trade in wildlife. In this podcast we speak to Rob about key issues in Green Criminology and, most importantly, how this field and these issues are related directly to rural communities and rural crime.

In this podcast Dr. Kyle Mulrooney and Dr. Alistair Harkness chat with Ph.D. student Danielle Stoneberg from West Virginia University about her research on drugs in the rural, and the role of 'redemption' stories.

Below you will find links to some of Danielle's research discussed in the vodcast.

Global Methamphetamine Trends- An Evolving Problem: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1057567717730104

The interaction of crime & place- an exploratory study of crime & policing in non-metropolitan areas: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41300-019-00072-8

State claims victory against marijuana growers Seizures have dropped drastically in Oklahoma: https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2872268/state-claims-victory-against-marijuana-growers-br-seizures-have-dropped-drastically-in-oklahoma

In this episode we speak with Dr. Matt Bowden about rural criminology in Ireland. Matt is a senior lecturer in sociology at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He has taught social theory, criminological theory, policing and security governance and was program leader in criminology from 2011 to 2016.

His research interests are in the politics and everyday realities of security, plural policing and crime prevention and is currently researching on rural security / safety, security consumption, police culture and police habitus.

Matt is co-editor of the Bristol University Press series Research in Rural Crime with Alistair Harkness. He was Treasurer of the Sociological Association of Ireland from 2012-2017 and Vice-President 2017-2018. Matt is also now Head of Research at the College of Arts and Tourism, Technological University Dublin, City Campus.

In this episode we speak with Dr. Willie Clack about rural crime in South Africa, with attention to the serious problem of cattle theft.

Willie is a Senior Lecturer at University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika where he has published extensively on issues of rural crime, stock theft, crime prevention and more.

Willie is also a farmer himself and serves on a wide range of agricultural institutional boards in South Africa including: Chairperson: The National Livestock Theft Prevention Forum; Vice Chairperson: Red Meat Producers Organisation; Member of the Livestock Identification and Traceability System Forum; National Animal Heath Forum and Red Meat Industry Trust.

In this edition of Issues in Rural Crime and Society, we host Jessica Peterson to talk about all things rural research methods.

Jessica is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Kearney. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the Discipline of Criminology at the University of New England and a Research Associate with the Centre for Rural Criminology (UNE).

In this podcast Kyle and Jessica cover a variety of topics and issues related to rural research methods, from access and engagement to the challenges and rewards.