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 Prevention
David Garland
2 Benefits, Burdens and Responsibilities: Some Ethical Dimensions of Situational Crime Prevention
R A Duff and S E Marshall
3 The Burdens of Situational Crime Prevention: An Ethical Commentary
John Kleinig
4 The Ethics of Public Television Surveillance
Andrew von Hirsch
5 Exclusion from Public Space
Andrew von Hirsch and Clifford Shearing
6 Situational Prevention, Criminology and Social Values
Ronald V. Clarke
7 Situational Prevention: Social Values and Social Viewpoints
Joanna Shapland
8 Situational Crime Prevention in Mass Private Property
Alison Wakefield
9 Changing Situations and Changing People
David J Smith
10 For a Sociological Theory of Situations (Or How Useful is Pragmatic Criminology)
Tim Hope and Richard Sparks
11 Situational Crime Prevention, Urban Governance and Trust Relations
Adam Crawford
12 The New Criminologies of Everyday Life: Routine Activity Theory in Historical and Social Context
David Garland
