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Situational Crime Prevention, Advice Giving, and Victim-Blaming
Situational crime prevention (SCP) measures attempt to prevent crime by reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. One of the ways in which some...
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Cognitive Diminishments and Crime Prevention: “Too Smart for the Rest of Us”?
In this paper, I discuss whether it is ever morally permissible to diminish the cognitive abilities or capacities of some cognitively gifted...
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AI, Suicide Prevention and the Limits of Beneficence
In this paper, we address the question of whether AI should be used for suicide prevention on social media data. We focus on algorithms that can...
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The Principle of Restorative Justice Towards the Strengthening of Crime Prevention as Viewed from the Pragmatic Gandhian Lens
The term “restoration” in legal parlance means to restore someone to its original position. The theory of restorative justice was developed mainly...
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“Stay away from the Park”: A Case for Police-Issued Personal Safety Advice for Women
Are police officers morally justified in issuing unsolicited personal safety advice to women? Such advice often attracts accusations of ‘victim...
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‘Corrective’ Sexual Violence in South Africa: A Crime Against the Deviant Sexualised Other
Although it has been argued that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history, South Africa remains a society characterised by violence....
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How to Deter Financial Misconduct if Crime Pays?
Financial misconduct has come into the spotlight in recent years, causing market regulators to increase the reach and severity of interventions. We...
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Artificial Intelligence Crime: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Foreseeable Threats and Solutions
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and regulation seek to balance the benefits of innovation against any potential harms and disruption. However,...
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Artificial Intelligence Crime: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Foreseeable Threats and Solutions
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and regulation seek to balance the benefits of innovation against any potential harms and disruption. However,...
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PeerMediation Behind Bars: A Project for Violence Prevention and Constructive Conflict Management in the Juvenile Detention Centre Berlin
“Peer mediator behind bars” is a four to five month training for imprisoned young people and adolescents with the aim of implementing conflict...
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Cultured Human Meat Acceptability: From Inviolability of Human Body to Prevention of Induced Human Meat Craving
Cultured meat is a lab grown product that aims to tackle the cravings of omnivores who struggle to switch to a plant-based diet, while still being...
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Policing, undercover policing and ‘dirty hands’: the case of state entrapment
Under a ‘dirty hands’ model of undercover policing, it inevitably involves situations where whatever the state agent does is morally problematic....
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Cesare Beccaria and the Aesthetic Knowledge of On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments has had a profound impact on, and made significant contributions to, among others, the study of law,...
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From the Philosophy of Punishment to the Philosophy of Criminal Justice
While punishment is a longstanding object of philosophical scrutiny, other controversial aspects of the justice system, such as policing, have flown...
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Understanding and Preventing Torture: a Review of the Literature
This article reviews the social scientific literature on the causes of and prevention of torture, analyzes its successes and failures, and proposes a...
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Ecocide
The destruction of the Earth system by industrial technologies is jeopardizing the living conditions of present and future generations, humans and...
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The Institutionalization of Hatred Politics in the Mediterranean: Studying Corpora of Online News Portals During the European ‘Refugee Crisis’
This paper aims to study the argumentative basis on which the prevention of migration is justified and hatred politics is institutionalised in three...
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Persons as the Objects of Lethal Justice
This chapter engages an in-depth comparative analysis of theories of preventive and neo-Kantian retributivist lethal punishment and their Buddhist...
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Crime and Punishment of the Poor from Recognition Theory Perspective
The goal of this paper is to analyze how recognition theories offer a conceptual framework to understand the way criminal law leads with the crimes...