Roundtable: Technology and Rural Criminology

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

In this roundtable we investigate the intersection and interplay between technology / cybercrime / ‘digital criminology’ and rural criminology. Presenters and participants will draw on their work in a range of fields (including, but not limited to: violence against women, fraud, farm crime, drugs and corrections), to explore how technology is shaping perpetration of crime, experiences of victimisation and responses inside and outside of the justice system, in rural contexts. Technology is unique in its ‘spacelessness’, but place and space shape the impacts of technology-facilitated crime in ways that have, thus far, been largely overlooked. Discussants will also consider how technology-facilitated advocacy and justice could provide channels to overcome geographic and social isolation and benefit rural communities. This session will review existing work and provide and an opportunity to workshop potential future fields of inquiry. We invite and encourage scholars and practitioners from a range of fields and interests to attend this interdisciplinary roundtable on an emerging area of criminological research.

Sub Unit

• Area XI. Roundtables

Individual Presentations

• Technology, proximity and drug supply in Australia - Andrew Childs, Griffith University; Melissa Bull, Queensland University of Technology

• Technological responses to tackle the scourge of farm crime - Alistair Harkness, Federation University Australia

• Technology and violence against women - Bridget Harris, Queensland University of Technology

Chair

• Bridget Harris, Queensland University of Technology

Discussants

• Melissa Bull, Queensland University of Technology

• Andrew Childs, Griffith University

• Cassandra Cross, Queensland University of Technology

• Walter Steven DeKeseredy, West Virginia University

• Joseph Donnermeyer, The Ohio State University

• Alistair Harkness, Federation University Australia

• Kyle Jonathan Daniel Mulrooney, University of New England