ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the scope for using situational prevention to protect immigrants from crime. It suggests that situational prevention would at best supplement the wide range of measures already being taken in many countries to protect immigrants. The chapter explains, situational prevention has to begin with the identification and analysis of a highly specific crime problem. It proposes a tentative classification of different kinds of incidents which themselves need to be broken down into more specific kinds of problems occurring in particular places and at particular times. The incidents are: discrimination, neighbor disputes, racial abuse following a dispute, shouted abuse in the street, repeated harassment, racially-motivated assaults, and predatory crimes focused on immigrants. No similar classifications of specific offenses that give a picture of the behaviors and the settings involved have been reported in the literature on victimization of immigrants. The chapter explains the reasons why situational crime prevention is use to prevent victimization of immigrants.
