The neglected problem of farm crime: an exploratory study
Abstract
Even though farm crime in the UK has been identified by the National Farmers Union as a serious issue for the economy (Pexton, 2005) and by the Scottish Office (George Street Research Limited, 1999) as raising particular problems of policing such widespread and isolated areas, it remains a neglected area of research by criminologists. Those studies that have been conducted are mainly located in the US and Australia and thus have little direct relevance to the demographic, geographic and agricultural profiles of farming in the UK. The aim of this exploratory paper is to draw together pertinent issues and make tentative suggestions from the findings in order to render farm crime (more) visible on the agendas of researchers, policy‐makers and practitioners. The paper begins by locating farm crime as a specific dimension of rural crime before drawing on a range of extant literature and reports of farm crime and the findings of a small research study conducted by the author during 2007/2008 on farm crime in North Wales (Jones 2008a; 2008b).
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Citation
Jones, J. (2010), "The neglected problem of farm crime: an exploratory study", Safer Communities, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 36-44. https://doi.org/10.5042/sc.2010.0013
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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