This edited collection synthesises rural criminological issues in Africa. It focusses on rural areas and rural communities in Africa in terms of victimisation, offending, lived experiences of law or being victims, policing, crime prevention, and theories and research methods. The chapters vary from conceptual, to focusing on a specific issue e.g. agricultural crime, corruption or Indigenous policing, a country, region, or all of Africa, with comparisons between countries and regions. Major themes include colonialism, human trafficking, causes and impacts of rural crimes in Africa, corruption, criminological theories in Africa, Indigenous policing in rural Africa, and cross-cutting issues.
Chapter 1: Crime in Rural Africa Conceptions and Realities.
Chapter 2:
Human Trafficking in Nigeria.
Chapter 3: Crime Time Analysing Panel Data on
Agricultural Theft in Rural East Africa.
Chapter 4: Theft of Green Tea
Leaves in Nandi County of Kenya.
Chapter 5: Potato Theft in Rural Kenya A
Neglected Area in the Studies of Agricultural Crime in Kenya.
Chapter
6: Transnational Organised Crime and the Illicit Wildlife Trade in East and
Southern Africa Challenges and Solutions.
Chapter 7: Criminological Theory
and Crimes Against Agricultural Operations in Africa.
Chapter 8: Corruption
and Fraud in Rural Southern Africa Challenges and Countermeasures.
Chapter
9: Institutional Corruption and Green Crime in Rural Ghana A Social and
Ecological Disorganisation Analysis of Gold Mining Under the Belt and Road
Initiative BRI Extractivist Regime.
Chapter 10: Indigenous Systems of
Policing and Security in Rural Africa.
Chapter 11: Traditional Leadership as
a Rural Crime Prevention Strategy in Northern KwazuluNatal.
Chapter
12: Contribution of traditional practices to crime in rural areas of South
Africa.
Chapter 13: Implementing a Rural Community Safety Network Best
Practices Model Case Study of the Hoedspruit Farm Watch.
Chapter
14: Enhancing Livestock Security in the Rural Eastern Cape South Africa
Lessons from Identification and Traceability Systems.
Chapter 15:
Decentralisation without Inclusion The Crisis of Rural Crime Governance in
Kenya.
Chapter 16: The Impact of Agricultural Policies on Rural Crime Rates
in SubSaharan Africa.
Chapter 17: The Future of Rural Criminology in Africa.
Emmanuel Bunei is Research Fellow at Flinders University, Australia. He is also Research Affiliate at the Centre for Social Impact within the College of Business, Government & Law at Flinders University, as well as Research Associate at the Centre for Rural Criminology at the University of New England, Australia. A citizen of Kenya, Bunei has previously held academic roles at Moi University, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, and Mount Kenya University, all located in Kenya.
Willie Clack is Senior Lecturer at the University of South Africa. In his academic career, he was appointed to various United Nations Development Programs in Sub-Sahara Africa to do Technical Needs Analysis and Needs Assessments in countries, amongst others, such as Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Swaziland, and Namibia.
