Roundtable: What is RURAL? Understanding and Incorporating Non-Urban Perspectives in Criminological Theory and Research

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Sessions

Abstract/Description

One of the consequences from the growth of rural crime and criminal justicer scholarship are debates about what is rural? Indeed, rural is now a contested concept as scholars from North America and around the world attempt to focus on crime and criminal justice issues in non-urban environments. The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss and debate what is meant by rural and how to apply it to both theory and research.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Joseph Donnermeyer, The Ohio State University

Discussants

• Vania Ceccato, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

• Walter Steven DeKeseredy, West Virginia University

• Elizabeth Moberly, West Virginia University

• Jessica Peterson, Southern Oregon University

• Andrew L. Davies, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law

• Angela A. Robertson, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University

• Roberto Velasquez, Northern New Mexico College

• Gorazd Mesko, University of Maribor

• Willie Clack, University of South Africa

• Kelly Knight, Montana State University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Rural Criminology