An inter-disciplinary social sciences workshop – Understanding Crime and Rural
Communities: Theory, Policy and Practice – was hosted by Federation University
on 7 and 8 February 2019. Held at Churchill in the Gippsland region of Victoria,
the event included 21 scholars from 12 different universities across four Australian
states and one international rural criminologist.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous sponsorship of the Academy of the
Social Sciences in Australia for fostering this ‘meeting of the minds’ through their
workshop grants scheme. The workshop also generated the present volume.