Addressing a lack of research on rural policing particularly in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean this groundbreaking edited collection draws on northern, southern and post-colonial perspectives in global contexts. Key scholars explore the lived experiences of rural crime and policing, police responses to domestic violence and people with mental illness, skilfully setting out the ways in which rural policing differs from its urban counterpart.
This is a timely, forward-looking book for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in understanding successful rural policing dynamics in the present and future.
Part 1: Key Themes
1. Introduction Equalising Police Scholarship Wendell C. Wallace
2. Rural Appeal: The Eye of the Beholder John Coxhead
3. An Examination of ICT Applications in Policing: A Case Study of
Urban-Rural Policing in Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan Vandra Harris
Agisilaou and Muhammad Abbas
4. Reflecting on the Village Bobby Scheme and Policing Village Crime Robert
Smith
5. Exploring Rural Police Officers Interactions and Attitudes Toward Persons
With Mental Illness in Trinidad and Tobago Wendell C. Wallace, Danny N.
Carr and Katija Khan.
6. Being Blue in a Small Town: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Rural
Police Officers Children Richard C. Helfers and Paul D. Reynolds
Part 2: Country Case Studies
7. Reflections on Police in Rural Poland Emilia Jurgielewicz-Delegacz
8. Rural-Urban Differences in Police Presence: An Examination of Access and
Opinions in Ghana Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
9. The Gentle Art of Policing Rural Iceland Gušmundur Oddsson, Andrew Paul
Hill, & Thóroddur Bjarnason
10. Policing on the Margins: Perspectives From Royal Solomon Islands Police
Force Officers on Policing Geographically Dispersed Locales in the Solomon
Islands Casandra Harry
11. On Becoming and Being a Village Bobby Robert Smith
12. The Imperative of Rural Policing in Nigeria Abiodun Raufu
13. Policing the Rural Space: Exploring Experiences of Police Officers in
Rural Trinidad and Tobago Casandra Harry, Leah Cleghorn, and Chantelle
Cummings
14. Crime, Culture and Policing Rural Nigeria: Exploring Lived Experiences of
Police Officers Richard Abayomi Aborisade
15. Policing Rural and Urban Crimes in South Africa Sanele Shabane and
Witness Maluleke
16. Understanding Policing and Rurality: Conclusion and Future Implications
Wendell C. Wallace
Wendell C. Wallace is a barrister and senior lecturer in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Unit at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
