Introduction to Volume 7, Issue 2 (Special Issue)

This issue of the International Journal of Rural Criminology is the second instalment of the IJRC special issue on rural policing (Volume 7, Issue 1). In the first issue, we discussed the significance of studying the ways in which the rural context impacts police practices. Rural settings uniquely affect how police operate and interact with community members, yet comparative research in this area is lacking, despite the fact that a substantial portion of the world's population lives in rural and remote areas and relies on rural police agencies for protection and access to the formal justice system. Although long overlooked in mainstream policing literature, research on rural police has been steadily increasing in recent decades.