Abstract
Over the past decades, the much-debated ‘punitive turn’ has substantially transformed the field of crime policy. However, a simultaneous ‘preventative turn’ has changed the role of the state at least as fundamentally. A case study of Dutch crime policy shows how prevention both complements and contradicts the classic judicial approach under the rule of law. Not the judge and judicial apparatus, but the executive power is pivotal in the approach to crime. Not the legal order, but the public order is the central concern. And not the delinquent, but society as a whole and especially the potential delinquent are the objects of intervention. Prevention may be a logical answer to the crime and security issues of late-modern societies, but it also comes at a price. We are developing towards a ‘guided society’, in which citizens have nothing to fear as long as they have nothing to hide – that is, as long as they do not pose an increased risk.
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