Policing the Changing Landscape of Rural Crime: A Case Study from Scotland
Policing the Changing Landscape of Rural Crime: A Case Study from Scotland
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监管不断变化的农村犯罪格局：苏格兰案例研究
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2010
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Robert Smith
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Robert Smith
虽然农村犯罪的概念有一种田园诗般的气氛，但犯罪发生在不断变化的社会环境中，并受到人口变化、不断变化的犯罪趋势和新的治安做法的影响。同样，农村犯罪的具体构成也存在争议，并随着时间的推移而发生变化。同样，我们对农村犯罪人也只有模糊的概念，难以承认农村犯罪下层社会的存在。因此，农村地区的犯罪比城市地区的犯罪更难监管，因为农村地区的犯罪需要一套不同于城市地区的技能和做法。农村派出所的关闭和稀缺的警务资源重新分配到城市热点地区，不可避免地导致了典型的“乡村警察”的去技能化。因此，这个准纵向案例研究探讨了在40年的时间内，在苏格兰农村（虚构）细分警务实践的变化。这使得能够考虑不断变化的农村犯罪情况，并从这一绘图过程中得出与农村警务良好做法有关的影响和结论。
Although the notion of rural crime has an idyllic aura to it, crime occurs in a changing social landscape and is affected by demographic changes, changing crime trends and by the introduction of new policing practices. Similarly, exactly what constitutes rural crime is also open to debate and changes over time. Likewise, we only have a fuzzy notion of the stereotypical rural criminal and find it difficult to acknowledge the existence of a rural criminal underclass. As a result, crime in a rural context is more difficult to police than crime in an urban landscape because it requires a different set of skills and practices from policing the urban landscape. The closure of rural police stations and the reallocation of scarce policing resources to urban hotspots have inevitably led to a deskilling of the archetypal ‘country bobby’. Consequently, this quasi-longitudinal case study examines changes in policing practices in a (fictionalised) subdivision in rural Scotland over a 40-year period. This enables consideration of the changing rural landscape of crime and from this mapping process implications and conclusions in relation to good practice on rural policing can emerge.