Short description:

This book addresses the complex ethical challenges related to preventive exclusion that have only been addressed in a limited way in the academic literature.

Long description:

While increasing attention has been directed to the legal and criminological aspects of situational crime prevention, focused ethical discussion of the measures involved has been notable by its absence. Situational crime prevention measures are being used increasingly in various forms in cities all around the world. This book addresses the complex ethical challenges related to preventive exclusion that have only been addressed in a limited way in the academic literature.

This volume brings together world-leading experts in ethics and penal theory to answer controversial questions about the ethics of preventing crime by exclusion. Situational crime prevention measures?such as gated communities, hostile design, or annoying music or noise?intended to exclude some or all people from an area to prevent crime present important ethical questions. Is the use of exclusionary measures antithetical to the attainment of social justice or to addressing the root causes of crime? If such measures result merely in the displacement of crime, does this mean they are without value, or morally questionable? What are the conceptual relationships between exclusionary measures, civic trust, and moral agency? Do some or all exclusionary measures fail to respect potential offenders as rational agents? When, if ever, is the use of exclusion to prevent crime discriminatory? And do such measures have a morally problematic expressive dimension?

This book is invaluable for scholars with an interest in crime prevention, criminal law, and criminal justice. The practical implications will also appeal to practitioners in the criminal justice system involved in the implementation and administration of preventive exclusion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Crime Prevention by Exclusion: Setting the Scene
Sebastian Jon Holmen, Thomas S?birk Petersen and Jesper Ryberg

1 Assessing exclusionary modes of crime reduction
Zachary Hoskins

2 Crime distribution and state obligations
Jesper Ryberg

3 The wrongness of preventive exclusion
David Birks

4 ?A disproportionate and degrading approach that acts without discrimination?? The expressive dimension of exclusionary crime prevention techniques
Christopher Bennett

5 Homelessness, poverty, and the limits of preventive exclusion
Terry Skolnik

6 Situational crime prevention or getting to the root causes of crime?
Thomas S?birk Petersen

7 Gated communities, social exclusion, and the right to basic security
Richard L. Lippke

8 Gated communities and discrimination against the poor
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

9 Out of sight, out of mind: Is the state justified in using selective exclusion as punishment?
Katrina L. Sifferd

10 The ethics and politics of nudges and niches: A critical analysis of exclusionary environmental designs
Lucy Osler, Bart Engelen, and Alfred Archer

11 Homelessness and the use of music in crime prevention
Hadessa Noorda

12 ?Hanging out and sleeping on the ground?: Acoustic environments, rationality, and the minimal account of Permissible means of prime prevention
Sebastian Jon Holmen