Ethical and Social Perspectives on Situational Crime Prevention

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Andreas von Hirsch, David Garland, Alison Wakefield
Hart Publishing, 2000 M11 18 - 230 páginas

Situational crime prevention has drawn increasing interest in recent years,yet the debate has looked mainly at whether it 'works' to prevent crime. This volume addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention and also examines the place of situational crime prevention within criminology. The contributors are twelve distinguished criminologists who together advance our understanding of the ethical and societal questions underlying crime prevention.
Contributors: Ron Clarke, Adam Crawford, Antony Duff, David Garland, Tim Hope, Richard Jones, John Kleinig, Clifford Shearing, David J. Smith, Richard Sparks, Andrew von Hirsch and Alison Wakefield.
"..presents several unique questions regarding the use of crime prevention strategies."
Robert Hanser writing in The Literature of Criminal Justice January 2001

 

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1 Ideas Institutions and Situational Crime Prevention
1
Some Ethical Dimensions of Situational Crime Prevention
17
An Ethical Commentary
37
4 The Ethics of Public Television Surveillance
59
5 Exclusion from Public Space
77
6 Situational Prevention Criminology and Social Values
97
Social Values and Social Viewpoints
113
8 Situational Crime Prevention in Mass Private Property
125
9 Changing Situations and Changing People
147
10 For a Sociological Theory of Situations Or How Useful is Pragmatic Criminology?
175
11 Situational Crime Prevention Urban Governance and Trust Relations
193
Routine Activity Theory in Historical and Social Context
215
List of Participants
225
Index
226
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