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Dr Elaine Barclay

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Dr Barclay is a full-time researcher in rural sociology at the Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England. Elaine has a degree in Social Science, postgraduate qualifications in psychology and a PhD in Criminology/Sociology. Prior to joining the Rural Development Centre in 1995, she was a partner in a family farming operation near Moree in northern New South Wales. Elaine has undertaken a wide range of applied research and consultancy projects in areas such as crime in rural communities, environmental crime, tourism and crime, biosecurity, farm succession and inheritance, welfare services for farm families, social change and adaptive capacity of rural communities, social impact assessment and water trading. Her PhD (Sociology, UNE) focused upon crime on farms in Australia. Over the past ten years, Dr Barclay has developed an extensive program of research in rural crime in collaboration with Professor Joseph Donnermeyer of Ohio State University. Dr Barclay is the Director of the Centre for Rural Crime which is incorporated within the Institute for Rural Futures. The research program at the Centre includes studies of crime in rural communities, crime and crime prevention on farms, biosecurity on farms and rural communities and currently environmental crime. The Centre publishes the online journal: "The International Journal of Rural Crime". A book on rural crime "Crime in Rural Australia" was published by Federation Press in 2007.

Recent Book

Crime in Rural Australia