Rural crime

Property crime on farms

• Statistics
• Research
• Practical guides

Statistics

• Statistics on rural/farm crime victimisation

Research

• Livestock theft in Australasia
  Wendy Stephenson. Australasian Centre for Policing Research, 2003
• Preventing crime on Australian farms : issues, current initiatives and future directions
  Marissa McCall and Peter Homel, 2003
• Results from the 2001-2002 National Farm Crime Survey
  Marissa McCall, 2003. See also Farm crime statistics
• Farm victimisation in Australia
  Carlos Carcach, 2002
• Stock theft provisions in the Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2002 (Qld) (PDF 131kB)
  Wayne Jarred. Queensland Parliamentary Library, 2002
• Crime in regional Australia
  Elaine Barclay. Fourth national outlook symposium on crime in Australia, 2001
• Property crime victimisation and crime prevention on farms (PDF 2.0MB)
  Elaine Barclay, Joseph F Donnermeyer, Brendan P Doyle and Dominic Talary, 2001
• A review of the literature on agricultural crime
  Elaine Barclay. Criminology Research Council report, 2001
• Crime and the farming community : The Scottish Farm Crime Survey, 1998
  Central Research Unit (Scotland), 1999

Practical prevention guides

• Crime prevention for farms : a guide for farmers and rural communities
  Australian Government Attorney-General's Department, National Community Crime Prevention Programme, 2004
• Arson attacks on farm and the countryside : reducing the risks (PDF 199kB)
  Arson Prevention Bureau (UK)
• Rural crime toolkit
  Crime Reduction (UK)
• Bush Watch
  Tasmania Police

Crime prevention leaflets

These crime prevention leaflets were produced as outcomes of research from the Property crime victimisation and crime prevention on farms project, undertaken by the Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, in partnership with Professor Joseph Donnermeyer, Ohio State University, and was funded by the NSW Attorney General's Crime Prevention Division.

• Crime on farms (PDF 94kB)
• Farm machinery theft (PDF 116kB)
• Farmhouse security (PDF 119kB)
• Fuel tank security (PDF 72kB)
• General farm security (PDF 99kB)
• How to establish a neighbourhood watch or rural watch group (PDF 104kB)
• Identification of farm machinery, tools and equipment (PDF 110kB)
• Illegal trespassers and shooters (PDF 87kB)
• Livestock theft (PDF 131kB)
• Reporting crime to police (PDF 82kB)
• Seed and grain theft (PDF 111kB)