The Legal-Criminology Criteria of Situational Crime Prevention

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 (Assistant professor at Shahid Beheshti University)

2 (A PhD student of Criminal Law & Criminology)

Abstract

What lets common citizens to practice the situational prevention against possible aggressors is carrying out right (practicing laws) -implementation of the right-, social order or a combination of both. From the other side, Setting out the social order and practicing mutual regulations requires specific mechanisms for citizen’s prevention interventions against unlawful exposure. Or otherwise defending of right or preventive affairs against possible offenders will cause a tool to happen unlawful harms. With respect to the legislator silence at the issue of situational prevention and its specific techniques, debate about this premise confronts disagreement. Some believe the governing of legal defending provisions to situational prevention but opponents consider no condition for situational prevention and public necessity, therefore it makes more researches about this subject. This note aims to analyze and study situational prevention criteria which conclude aggressive criteria and the criteria of situational prevention strategies according to the opinion poll which comprises of three groups: specialists, prisoners and common people. The result shows that it is necessary to have criteria in order to limit the realm of situational prevention and responses of all three groups emphasize this obligation.
 

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