While scholarship in rural criminology has grown over the past twenty years, extensive studies related to the criminological dimensions of food and agriculture remain scattered. This book offers a much needed synthesis of a wide literature on the criminology of food and agriculture, drawing on international topics such as farm victimization, land theft and bio-piracy, the abuse and trafficking of farmworkers and farm animals, farmer involvement in organized and violent crime.

Written by a pioneer of rural criminology, this landmark book offers an important contribution in the development of the criminology of food and agriculture and sets out an international theoretical, research, and policy agenda for future scholarship. It is essential reading for green criminologists and rural criminologists and sociologists alike, as well as those engaged with rural studies and food science.