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Setting the context: a brief overview of Scottish and international evidence of crime and policing in rural environments
Nick Fyfe
SIPR and University of Dundee
Scottish Government Urban/Rural Classification, 2009-20106 Fold Classification
Accessible areas are defined as those that are within a 30 minute drive time from the centre of a Settlement with a population of 10,000 or more, while Remote Areas have a drive time which is greater than 30 minutes.
Images from Scottish Government GI Science & Analysis Team, August 2010
Crime in rural Scotland: constructing a rural idyll?
Aspects of Neighbourhood Particularly Liked by Geographic Area, 2009-10
Experience of Neighbourhood Problems by Geographic Area, 2009-10(% saying they have personal experience of problem)
Perceptions of Safety When at Home Alone at Night by Geographic Area, 2009-10
Crime Victimisation and Perception of Change in Crime Rates Over Previous Two Years by Geographic Area, 2009-10
Understanding crime in rural areas: why we need to challenge the ‘rural idyll’
• Marginalises fear and anxiety;
• Obscures impacts of deprivation;
• Invokes notion of the ‘endangered countryside’
• Specificity of rural crime.
Rural policing: themes from international research
• ‘localistic’ rather than ‘legalistic’ and ‘problem-solving’ rather than ‘enforcement led’;
• public tranquillity vs private disorder;• entanglement of the private lives and public roles
of officers;• challenges around recruitment and retention;• the extended rural policing family.
Concluding comments: the opportunities of police reform
• Enhanced localism;
• Developing a rural policing agenda for policy, training and research.