Ethical and Social Perspectives on Situational Crime Prevention

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

1 Ideas, Institutions and Situational Crime PreventionDavid Garland2 Benefits, Burdens and Responsibilities: Some Ethical Dimensions of Situational Crime PreventionR A Duff and S E Marshall3 The Burdens of Situational Crime Prevention: An Ethical CommentaryJohn Kleinig4 The Ethics of Public Television SurveillanceAndrew von Hirsch5 Exclusion from Public SpaceAndrew von Hirsch and Clifford Shearing6 Situational Prevention, Criminology and Social ValuesRonald V. Clarke7 Situational Prevention: Social Values and Social ViewpointsJoanna Shapland8 Situational Crime Prevention in Mass Private PropertyAlison Wakefield9 Changing Situations and Changing PeopleDavid J Smith10 For a Sociological Theory of Situations (Or How Useful is Pragmatic Criminology)Tim Hope and Richard Sparks11 Situational Crime Prevention, Urban Governance and Trust RelationsAdam Crawford12 The New Criminologies of Everyday Life: Routine Activity Theory in Historical and Social ContextDavid Garland