“…Muhammad (2002) points out that many papers on crime and victimization have been written for urban areas, as these problems tend to be more prevalent in urban communities, but they are also increasingly prevalent in rural areas nowadays (e.g., theft of cattle and other animals, produce, inputs, equipment, etc.). In fact, Rand and Catalano (2007), for example, found that violent victimization in sampled rural areas increased by 62% between 2005 and 2006 in the U.S.. This phenomenon is associated with the fact that urban areas are increasingly close to rural ones and therefore are also exposed to their negative elements.…”