Document Type

Doctoral Thesis

Disciplines

Criminology, public administration, 5.9 OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

Publication Details

This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 2022, Technological University Dublin, September 2022.

https://doi.org/10.21427/qa5g-1t82

Abstract

A consequence of globalisation is a growing transport infrastructure which exposes rural communities to a greater risk of crime and increased insecurity. This is compounded by the withdrawal of both market and state in policing, banking, hospitals and postal services leaving rural citizens with what seems to be ontological insecurity. This project is set in Ireland but addresses global themes such as late modernity, risk and globalization and undertakes an intensive qualitative sociological study of how communities build the capacity to manage these changes. These capacities, it is hypothesised, can be found in nascent forms of local informal crime control embedded in relationships, networks, discourses and technologies: for example, Text Alert Schemes, CCTV and low‐tech forms of local communication. The primary aim of the project is to develop a theoretical framework and methodology for analysing rural security and to identify the practical challenges for rural civil society in the context of the wider dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/qa5g-1t82

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