Crimes of the Australian Bush – Alan Sharpe

Crimes of the Australian Bush – Alan Sharpe. This book explodes the myth that crime is the prerogative of the urban environment. Greed, passion, hate of the fight for survival, the motives are always the same no matter where the location. In Australia the early crimes took place in the bush when the bushrangers haunted the back roads or burst into banks in sleepy rustic towns.
In those days Australia was largely a pastoral society but as cities expanded and the rural population dwindled the balance between rural and urban crime changed.