A multi-disciplinary team of leading scholars bring together case studies from developed countries to examine the performance of police and policing in rural areas. The book argues that rurality, policing and criminality are socially constructed and policing therefore rests on the ways in which the police, public and other agencies regulate themselves and each other according to the dominant ideals of society.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Rob I. Mawby, Richard Yarwood; Part I Rural Policing; Chapter 2 Rural Police, Rob I. Mawby; Chapter 3 Policing Rural Canada and the United States, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz; Chapter 4 Policing the Outback, Elaine Barclay, John Scott, Joseph F. Donnermeyer; Chapter 5 Rural Policing in France, Christian Mouhanna; Chapter 6 Plural Policing in Rural Britain, Rob I. Mawby; Chapter 7 Governing Crime in Rural UK, Daniel Gilling; Chapter 8 Big Brother Goes to the Countryside, Craig Johnstone; Chapter 9 Whose Blue Line is it Anyway? Community Policing and Partnership Working in Rural Places, Richard Yarwood; Part II Policing the Rural; Chapter 10 Policing Rural Protest, Michael Woods; Chapter 11 Still 'Out of Place in the Country'? Travellers and the Post-Productivist Rural, Keith Halfacree; Chapter 12 Gypsies and Travellers in the Countryside, Zoë James; Chapter 13 A Trip in the Country? Policing Drug Use in Rural Settings, Adrian Barton, David Storey, Claire Palmer; Chapter 14 'It's Not All Heartbeat You Know', Greta Squire, Aisha Gill; Chapter 15 The Thin Green Line? Police Perceptions of the Challenges of Policing Wildlife Crime in Scotland, Nicholas R. Fyfe, Alison D. Reeves; Chapter 16 Policing Poaching and Protecting Pachyderms, A.M. Lemieux; Chapter 17 Policing Agricultural Crime, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Elaine M. Barclay, Daniel P. Mears; Chapter 18 Policing the Producer, Matthew Henry; Chapter 19 W(h)ither Rural Policing? An Afterword, Richard Yarwood, Rob I. Mawby;