A Critical Approach to Place Based Criminological Theory: Lessons Learned and Applications to the Rural Crime Context

• In Event: Rural Crime and Critical Perspectives

Abstract

Like those proverbial “ships passing in the night,” place-based theories and concepts in mainstream criminology mostly are not critical, and variants of critical criminology mostly ignore the significance of place. The purpose of this paper is to reconsider place-based criminological theory, but from a critical point of view, utilizing the growing corpus of rural criminology for its examination. What would the guiding principles and conceptual views of crime at rural places look like? This paper and presentation explores these possibilities, proposing a new look at a place-based criminology through the lens of critical criminology.

Author

• Joseph Donnermeyer, Ohio State University