In their book ‘Rural Criminology’, Donnermeyer and DeKeseredy (2014: 4e6) define the rural as: having smaller population sizes and densities; where there is closer collective efficacy (Sampson, 1988); where there is less autonomy between rural communities than before and where cultural, social and economic divides are much more obvious than before. Although these points may accurately nominally describe what makes a location ‘rural’, Halfacree's (2006) analysis enables the rural to be examined without fetishizing particular rural representations.