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.
In ethically analysing a particular SCP method, it is not enough to look
at empirical data. Even if a method is effective at preventing crime, it may
turn out to be ethically unattractive because it harms more people than
it benefits, or because it violates our right to free movement. The book
proceeds from the assumption that decision-making about whether we
should use SCPs can only be conducted by carefully identifying, clarifying,
and critically evaluating the ethical arguments for and against use of the
SCP method in question. The author analyses several SCP strategies that
have not been treated in detail in criminology or applied ethics literatures.
These SCP strategies include gated communities, excluding people with a
criminal record from housing or employment, enhanced surveillance and
lighting in public and private spaces, and the implementation of intelligent
speed adaption in vehicles.
Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention is an essential resource for
criminologists, moral philosophers, legal scholars, and social scientists
with an interest in crime prevention.