Policing: An International Journal: Volume 47 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Rural policing in contemporary society

Gorazd Meško, Matt Joseph Bowden

Police relationships and engagement with rural citizens: perspectives of front-line police in the United Kingdom, Australia, and France

Kyle Mulrooney, Karen Bullock, Christian Mouhanna, Alistair Harkness

This article examines challenges and strategies related to police relationships and engagement with rural communities in England and Wales, Australia and France. It aims to bridge…

An ethnographic study of police culture in a rural Kansas police agency

Joshua J. Davis, Michael L. Birzer

The study examined rural police culture in one Kansas police agency.

“After god is police”: lived experiences of rural police officers in Trinidad and Tobago

Leah Cleghorn, Casandra Harry, Chantelle Cummings

In Trinidad and Tobago, there is significant reliance on the traditional and centralized police service to engage in crime response and suppression in urban and rural areas. In…

Responding to domestic and family violence in resource-constrained contexts: a case study on rural policing innovations in Melanesia

Danielle Verlene Christal Watson, Sara N. Amin, Amanda L. Robinson

Discussions about progressive gender reform across Melanesia highlight the need for more gender-inclusive policies and improved conditions for women and girls throughout all…

“It's kind of preventative maintenance”: social capital and policing in rural schools

Dale C. Spencer, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Taryn Hepburn

The purpose of this article is to examine the expectations, challenges and tensions officers describe while engaged with public schools to demonstrate that officers engage with…

Police custody in rural Scotland: negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change

Andrew Wooff

This paper explores the challenging nexus of police custody, risk and intra-organisational boundaries in the context of a recently reformed national police service. Police custody…

Rural American farmers’ perceptions of crime, safety and policing

Jessica Rene Peterson, Kyle C. Ward, Michaela Lawrie

The purpose is to understand how farmers in rural American communities perceive crime, safety and policing.

Policing the pandemic in rural America: experiences from Pennsylvania

Vanessa Jesenia Gutiérrez, Daniel Lee

This study explored the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on rural municipal police in Pennsylvania.

Illegal rural enterprise – developing a framework to help identify and investigate shadow infrastructures and illicit criminal networks

Robert Smith, Gerard McElwee

This study builds on the extant research of the authors on illegal rural enterprise (IRE). However, instead of taking a single or micro case approach within specific sections of…

Exploring changes in urban, small town and rural policing during the COVID-19 pandemic: does urbanicity matter?

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Marijana Kotlaja, Yang Liu, Peter Neyroud, Irena Cajner Mraović, Krunoslav Borovec, Jon Maskály

We explore the relationship between urbanicity and police officers’ perceptions of changes in their reactive and proactive work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Intertwined rural and urban policing in the local communities of the Pomurje region in Slovenia

Katja Eman, Damir Ivančić, Dejan Bagari

The purpose of the paper is to present the results of research in the region covered by the Murska Sobota Police Directorate based on semi-structured interviews we conducted with…

Race, local context, and traffic stops: an examination of racial profiling in traffic stops in rural and non-rural places

Janice Iwama

The current study examines the effects of race, agency and environment on traffic stops in rural and non-rural spaces.

Police legitimacy in urban, suburban and rural settings: a study in Slovenia

Gorazd Meško, Rok Hacin

Police legitimacy presents a social value of the institution based on citizens' normative, moral and ethical feelings that they should voluntarily comply with and support the…