Lower crime rates in sparsely populated areas of the globe are often taken as a sign that crime is not a major concern in these areas. The negligence of safety and security issues outside the urban realm is not exclusive to criminology. Such paucity of knowledge on crime, victimization, and safety conditions in rural contexts can be associated with the inadequacy of reliable official data and/or the lack of methods capable of capturing the complexities of the rural–urban continuum. Indeed, issues of data scarcity and sparsity in rural areas are a limiting factor for many of the standard methods used in criminology, such as tools to detect spatial concentration, measures of risk and modelling. We also argue that the study of crime and crime prevention in rural contexts demands an integrated and interdisciplinary set of theories and methods that can provide guidance to deal with an ever-increasing amount of data from relatively new sources such as crowdsourcing, social media, and remote sensing including drones.

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农村环境中的犯罪与安全：创新方法

全球人口稀少地区的犯罪率较低通常被视为犯罪在这些地区不是主要问题的标志。对城市领域以外的安全和安保问题的疏忽并非犯罪学所独有。对农村环境中犯罪、受害和安全条件的这种知识匮乏可能与可靠的官方数据不足和/或缺乏能够捕捉城乡连续体复杂性的方法有关。事实上，农村地区的数据稀缺和稀疏问题是犯罪学中使用的许多标准方法的限制因素，例如检测空间集中度的工具、风险度量和建模。