ABSTRACT
The following remarks do not come from an expert in criminal law or in criminology but from a philosopher specializing in political philosophy and the history of ideas. Their intention is to bring a few thoughts from outside the field of situational prevention, itself mainly viewed through some works by Ronald Clarke and his colleague Maurice Cusson. These thoughts will remain intentionally simple.1 The first section of the chapter aims to protect situational prevention from certain criticisms it could incur on a moral level, and the second to do the same with regard to the political level. The point is not to develop vast theoretical or historical analyses. Since situational prevention has at least the advantage of being an effective technique, the worst thing to happen would for it be to be crushed under theoretical controversies disconnected from reality.2
