Philosophical justifications of situational crime prevention

Situational crime prevention claims a methodological approach that depersonalize and depsychologizes the study of crime. Situational crime prevention suggests restriction of the circumstances and reducing opportunities leading to the offence. This approach claims that changing situations is easier than changing souls. The first section of this article aims to protect situational crime prevention from certain criticisms it could incur on moral level and the second to do the same with regard to the political level. Since situational crime prevention is an effective technique.