Overview
- Investigates the social problems arising in 'boomtowns' including: violence, corporate harm, traffic accidents
- Addresses different types of resource extraction and how this leads to population increase and industrialisation
- Asks how we can improve quality of life for residents of boomtowns in the wake of sudden development and growing demand on facilities
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“Gas, and Crime gives readers a textured account of the interrelated factors that shape crime in the Bakken and other boomtowns and will be of especial interest to policy makers trying to deal with booms in their own communities.” (Kyle Conway, Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 38 (4), Fall, 2018)
“What happens when a small rural community becomes the epicenter of an oil and gas boom seemingly overnight? Rick Ruddell (2017) tells that story in Oil, Gas, & Crime, in a meticulously researched, thought provoking, and deliberate contribution to the study of rural life, crime, and human geography. … In sum, Oil, Gas, & Crime tells a story that should appeal to a general, policy, practitioner, and academic audience. … I found the book to be a pleasure to read.” (Scott K. Turner, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, July, 2018)
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Book Title: Oil, Gas, and Crime
Book Subtitle: The Dark Side of the Boomtown
Authors: Rick Ruddell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58714-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58713-8Published: 23 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58714-5Published: 22 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Criminology, Corporate Crime, Crime and Society, Transnational Crime, International Environmental Law