In this episode of Rural Crime we speak with Professor Joe Donnermeyer about the Future of Rural Criminology as a field, a cover a range of key and current issues in rural crime and society from rural politics to the role of space is criminological theory. Joe is a professor emeritus in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and an adjunct professor at both the Center on Research on Violence at West Virginia University and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. Joe’s specialisation is rural criminology. He is the author/co-author of over 100 peer reviewed publications issues related to rural crime and rural societies. He was the editor of Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology (2016), is currently preparing the Criminology of Food and Agriculture (a monograph for Routledge), and is the editor of the new Routledge Monograph Series in Rural Criminology. Joe was a visiting academic in the School of Social Science at the University of New England on several occasions in the past, working collaboratively with various scholars on issues of rural crime in Australia. He is a co-founder of both the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime and the Division of Rural Criminology in the American Society of Criminology. He is the founder and currently serves as the editor of the International Journal of Rural Criminology.