A Global Perspective on Farm Victimization: Diversity and Similarity

• In Event: Farm crime victimization: a global perspective

Abstract

The scholarly literature on farm victimization literature is perhaps the most scattered of any literature in criminology. It is scattered by virtue that much of it is, first, in a variety of non-criminological journals, from Rural Sociology to the Journal of Rural Studies, and various governmental and university-based research reports; and second, focused on specific locations around the world, from Australia to Ethiopia to England. The purpose of this paper is to provide a synthesis, however incomplete, of the farm victimization literature, examining both similarities and diversities in the nature and extent of crimes against agricultural operations. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of farm victimization and suggest future directions for research.

Author

• Joseph Donnermeyer, The Ohio State University