Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside

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Crossroads of Rural Crime
Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside
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Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Rural Crime at the Crossroads
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Setting the Scene
	The Rural
	Rural Life and Social Change
	At the Crossroads
	Conclusion
	References
2. Dhany ‘Towards Here’: Paths for Rural Criminology Laid by
Aboriginal Health
	Abstract
	Gabin-gidyal: Beginning
	Yindyamarra: Honour, to Respect, Be Gentle
	Birra-nguwur: That Which Is behind
		Miiny? Why, Who, Where
		Addressing Shared Determinants of Poor Health and Crime
	Yuwinbir Rural Criminology: This Way!
		Role of the 97 Percent
		Local, Place-based Action
		Dugu-way-bul: Completely, Altogether, Wholly
		Ngaabin-birra: To Measure, Try
	Cultural Load Experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
	Conclusion: Joining the Roads Together
	References
3. Cartographies of Place: Being, Country and Indigenous Justice
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Being ‘on-Country’ and the Nature of Place
		On-Country Approaches to Family Violence
		On-Country Diversion: The Yiriman Project
		Place-based: Justice Reinvestment and the Maranguka Project Bourke
		Aboriginal Community Patrols
		Healing
		Nation-building and Self-determination
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4. Night Patrols: Mobilising Collective Efficacy in
Indigenous Communities
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Night Patrols
	The Communities
	The Need for Night Patrols in These Communities
	Night Patrols as a Mechanism for Collective Efficacy
		Patrols Build Trust
		Patrols Facilitate Informal Social Control
		Night Patrols Build Social Networks
		Networking with Police
		The Collective Use of the Bus
		When It Does Not Work
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. On the Road to Roon?: Rural Australia’s Storied Role in the
Nation’s Ice ‘Epidemic’
	Abstract
	Introduction
	A Framing Approach to Understanding Mediated Representations of the Drug Ice
	Constructing a Small-town ‘Ice Epidemic’ for Australian Media Audiences
		Perverting the Rural Idyll
		Circling the Wagons: Ice Is Everyone's Problem in the Bush
	Framing Devices and How They Shape the Narrative
	Conclusion: Community Responsibilisation as an Emergent Rural Frame
	References
6. The Backroads of Australian Punishment: Penality beyond the Australian Cityscape
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The Rural Ideal in Australia
	The City, the Rural and the Penal
		The Rural and Isolation and Exclusion as Forms of Punishment
		Rural as Refuge from the City: Rural Environments, Reformation and the Threat of Symbolic Pollution
		Economics of Punishment and the Rural Penal Estate
		Rural/Urban Inequalities in the Delivery of Punishment
		Rural Penal Attitudes and Sensibilities: The Antinomies of Punitiveness and Parsimony
	‘…tucked away out of sight somewhere beyond the end of the sealed road…’5: Peripheral Penalities
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7. Dead Ends: The Vanishing of Marilyn Wallman
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Disappearance
	The Community
	Badlands
		Remembering Marilyn
		Uncertainty
	Categories of Violence
		Objective Violence
		Systemic Violence
		Transforming Mackay
	Notes
	References
	Newspaper Articles
	Academic References
8. From Victims to Companions: Reconciling Wildlife and Agriculture in
Rural Spaces
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Intersections of Agricultural Control and Wild Resistance
	A Rural Wildlife Impasse
	Reconciliation in the Anthropocene
	Conclusion
	References
9. The Rhetoric of Rurality: Political Representations of Rural and Regional Australia
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Appealing to ‘the Bush’
	Ignoring the Bush?
	Representation and Trust
	Implications for Rural Crime
	Conclusion
	References
10. Kicking against the Majority: The Rural-urban Divide, Politics,
Policy-making and the Law-and-order
Debate
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Rural Voting Behaviour in Context
	Crime and Policy: Some Preliminaries
	Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Victoria: The Great Divide?
	Voter Alignments and the Parties
	Conclusion
	References
11. Dynamics of Seachangers in Rural and Regional Townships: Impacts on Local Communities in
Transition
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Conceptualising Population Turnaround: From Amenity Migration to Lifestyle Migration
	A Snapshot of Seachanging Today: Gippsland, Victoria
	Lifestyle as a Contributing Factor to Rural/Regional Change
	Conclusion: Communities in Transition
	Notes
	References
12. Post-disaster Access to Justice: The Road Ahead for Australian Rural
Communities
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Rural Challenges to Accessing Justice
	Disasters and Access to Justice
	Post-disaster Strategies, Responses and Best Practice
	Conclusion
	References
Index