Just released by Bristol University Press is a ground-breaking book that attempts to summarize the rural criminology literature for each continent.
Read More Read more about New book -- Rural Criminology in Global Perspective: State of the Art on the World's Continents -- edited by Matt Bowden and Gorazd MeškoVolume 8, Issue 4 is a Special Issue, with the theme of "Rural Victimization: A Trauma-Informed Approach from a Global Perspective"
Read More Read more about Volume 8, Issue 4 of IJRC now released.The UN Crime Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will be held on April 25-30, 2026 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is held once every five years. The UN Sustainability Goals are becoming more articulated within criminological circles, and since the world is still more than 40 percent rural, perhaps this will be a big opportunity for some rural criminologists to attend, present papers, and make new friends. For more information, go to https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CCPCJ/15-crime-congress html
Read More Read more about The UN Crime Congress in 2026The International Journal of Rural Criminology (IJRC) is a double blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing empirical and theoretical work related to crime and criminal justice issues associated with diverse rural places of the world. It also provides an outlet for practitioners to provide insights into innovations in tackling rural crime.
The journal serves as the official organ of the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime, Inc.; the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Rural Criminology; and the European Rural Criminology Working Group, European Society of Criminology.
The International Journal of Rural Criminology is published by The Ohio State University Libraries.
Beginning with Volume 3, Issue 2, the International Journal of Rural Criminology is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license unless otherwise indicated.
Volumes 1–5 are openly available here.
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