TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Crime, rurality and community
JO  - Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
A1  - Hoggt, Russell
A1  - Carrington, Kerry
SP  - 160
EP  - 181
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
N2  - Criminology has tended to treat crime as predominantly an urban phenomenon. A review of the available, albeit rather limited, empirical evidence regarding crime and law and order in rural New South Wales (NSW) raises some doubts about the urban-centric focus of criminology and opens up a range of other interesting questions concerning the differential social construction of crime problems in some rural localities, in particular the tendency to racialise questions of crime and law and order. Rather than simply developing an empirical and theoretical account of urban/rural differences, however, the paper suggests a conceptual framework for local and regional studies drawing on the work of Norbert Elias and Robert Putnam.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0004-8658
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589803100204
ID  - ref1
ER  -