Advances in Rural Criminology: Crimes Against People in Rural Communities

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Characteristics of rural communities such as geographic isolation, lack of funding and resources, and cultural norms can provide unique challenges and barriers to justice for victims of violence. This is especially true for victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence (IPV). This panel includes recent research on violent crimes against people in rural communities across the globe. Specifically, presenters will discuss research on 1) police and service providers’ response to domestic violence in the rural English countryside; 2) the impact of COVID-19 on requests for police and other service providers’ help by survivors of intimate partner violence in the rural US; 3) the spatiotemporal distribution of gun violence across the rural-urban continuum in Sweden; and 4) analysis of the unintended consequences and impact of mandatory arrest laws for domestic violence in rural Washington. Each presenter will discuss data, methods, results, and the practical and theoretical implications of their research.

Sub Unit

• Area V. Victimization / 36. Policy and Prevention of Victimization

Individual Presentations

• Geographies of Trauma: The Implications for Understandings of Rural Domestic Abuse - CANCELLED - Sam Jane Lewis, University of Leeds, UK

• Impact of COVID-19 on Help-Seeking Behavior by Rural Survivors of IPV - Rebecca Morrow, Tarleton State University

• Firearm Violence Across the Rural-urban Continuum in Sweden - Vania Ceccato, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Ned Levine, Ned Levine & Associates; Manne Gerell, Malmö University, Sweden

• Mandatory Arrest Laws, Unintended Consequences, and Rural Jail Incarceration in Washington State: “It’s Out of My Hands” - Jennifer Schwartz, Washington State University; Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University

Chair

• Vania Ceccato, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Rural Criminology