Policing Rural Small-Island Developing States

Despite an initial primary focus on mining, fishing and agriculture-related crimes in sparsely settled areas on the distant outskirts of urban metropoles in developed countries, rural policing scholarship has shifted towards a broader focus. Recent scholarship on rural policing now explores societal manifestations of dysfunction in sparsely inhabited areas across the globe, contextually considered the inverse of the urban. These shifts have also resulted in further acknowledgement of the variations in understandings of rurality and the recognition of additional categories of spaces identified as ‘rural’, specifically rural areas in small-island developing states (SIDS)