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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. Little attention has been paid to how it alters conceptions and strategies of crime prevention in modern society, and to the ethical questions concernin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart,
2000.
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| Colección: | Studies in penal theory and penal ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Situational crime prevention has drawn increasing interest in recent years, yet the debate has looked mainly at whether it?works? to prevent crime. Little attention has been paid to how it alters conceptions and strategies of crime prevention in modern society, and to the ethical questions concerning its potential impact on freedom and privacy. This volume addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention. Are situational crime prevention strategies likely to constrain unduly people's freedom of movement? Do such strategies involve an intrusive scrutiny of people's everyday activities? Can. |
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| Notas: | Published for Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | The thinking reflected in this book was stimulated by two colloquia held in Cambridge, in January 1997 and October 1999. |
| ISBN: | 9781847313300 1847313302 9781472562258 1472562259 9781841135533 1841135534 |