Abstract
Situational crime prevention and CPtED (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design) strategies have been broadly criticized within much of theoretical criminology. Most of these criticisms dismantle the notion of the fully rational criminal actor, questioning the shaky ground of classical criminology on which its claims are made. Through positioning hyper-regulated city centres as post-social, post-political ‘non-places’ of consumption, this article builds upon these critiques arguing that attempts to ‘design out crime’ create environments which are not only doomed to fail in their primary objective, but actively create environments which perpetuate and exacerbate the decline in symbolic efficiency and the narcissistic, competitive-individualist and asocial subjectivities which, as recent work from left-wing criminology consistently reveals, have the capacity to significantly contribute to forms of harm, crime and deviance.
DOI
10.1093/bjc/azv069
Publication Date
2016-05-01
Publication Title
British Journal of Criminology
Volume
56
Issue
3
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
ISSN
1464-3529
First Page
497
Last Page
514
Recommended Citation
Raymen, T. (2016) 'Designing-in Crime by Designing-out the Social? Situational Crime Prevention and the Intensification of Harmful Subjectivities', British Journal of Criminology, 56(3), pp. 497-514. Oxford University Press (OUP): Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv069
