Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention

This book addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP strategies, but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP measures.

List of contents

1. Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention 2. Gated Communities: On Displacement and Unequal Protection from Crime 3. Hostile Design: Four Moral Objections 4. Hostile Design and the Argument from Diversion of Resources 5. Criminal Records and Excluding Ex-offenders from the Labour Market 6. Criminal Records and Excluding Ex-offenders from Housing 7. Devices for Controlling Speeding 8. Ethical Guidelines on the Use of Situational Crime Prevention

About the author

Thomas Søbirk Petersen is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the author of Doping in Sport: A Defence (Routledge, 2021) and Why Criminalize? New Perspectives on Normative Principles of Criminalization (Springer Nature, 2020). He has also co-edited several anthologies, the most recent being Preventing Crime by Exclusion (Routledge, forthcoming).

Summary

This book addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP strategies, but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP measures.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Sbirk (Roskilde University Petersen, Thomas Søbirk Petersen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032623764
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262376-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law