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12Situational Crime Prevention, Advice Giving, and Victim-BlamingPhilosophia 1-16. forthcoming.Situational crime prevention (SCP) measures attempt to prevent crime by reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. One of the ways in which some SCP measures reduce such opportunities is by providing victims with advice about how to avoid being victimised, for instance through public awareness campaigns or safety apps. Some scholars claim that this approach to preventing crime often or always promotes victim-blaming and that it is therefore morally wrong to pursue such strategies. Others hav…Read more
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16Is it getting too personal? On personalized advertising and autonomyEtikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 2 53-67. 2023.It has recently been suggested that personalized advertising is often _more _an affront to a person's autonomy and thus more morally worrisome than its generic counterpart precisely because it involves or takes advantage of such personalization. This paper argues that central reasons that have been forwarded to support this claim are unpersuasive and that generic and personalized advertising should therefore be treated as morally on par in terms of their potential to undermine consumer autonomy.…Read more
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5AI, doping and ethics: On why increasing the effectiveness of detecting doping fraud in sport may be morally wrongJournal of Medical Ethics. forthcoming.In this article, our aim is to show why increasing the effectiveness of detecting doping fraud in sport by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) may be morally wrong. The first argument in favour of this conclusion is that using AI to make a non-ideal antidoping policy even more effective can be morally wrong. Whether the increased effectiveness is morally wrong depends on whether you believe that the current antidoping system administrated by the World Anti-Doping Agency is already morally wr…Read more
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22A note on psychological continuity theories of identity and neurointerventionsJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (10): 742-745. 2022.An important concern sometimes voiced in the neuroethical literature is that swift and radical changes to the parts of a person’s mental life essential for sustaining his/her numerical identity can result in the person ceasing to exist—in other words, that these changes may disrupt psychological continuity. Taking neurointerventions used for rehabilitative purposes as a point of departure, this short paper argues that the same radical alterations of criminal offenders’ psychological features whi…Read more
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13The Agency Objection to Preventive Exclusion from Public SpacesCriminal Justice Ethics 42 (2): 178-192. 2023.One way to seek to reduce the risk of potential offenders engaging in certain types of crime in a public or semi-public area is to make it much more difficult, or even impossible, for them to gain access to the area in question and subject them to a sanction if they do enter the area. This paper considers whether preventive exclusion of this kind should be considered a pro tanto morally impermissible means of crime prevention because it violates the agency of those excluded. Several variants of …Read more
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23Respect, Punishment and Mandatory NeurointerventionsNeuroethics 14 (2): 167-176. 2020.The view that acting morally is ultimately a question of treating others with respect has had a profound influence on moral and legal philosophy. Not surprisingly, then, some scholars forcefully argue that the modes of punishment that the states mete out to offenders should not be disrespectful, and, furthermore, it has been argued that obliging offenders to receive neurological treatment is incompatible with showing them their due respect. In this paper, I examine three contemporary accounts of…Read more
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7Not in My Neighborhood: The Ethics of Excluding Ex-offenders from HousingCriminal Law and Philosophy 1-17. forthcoming.The policy adopted by housing authorities of denying prospective tenants with a criminal record access to housing is an important barrier to ex-offenders seeking somewhere to live. The policy is legal, but are there any good reasons in favor of it when we know that having no, or limited, access to secure and affordable housing increases the probability of recidivism? The primary aim of this article is to critically discuss two central reasons that have been given for denying people with criminal…Read more
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12Neurointerventions and informed consentJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (12). 2021.It is widely believed that informed consent must be obtained from a patient for it to be morally permissible to administer to him/her a medical intervention. The same has been argued for the use of neurointerventions administered to criminal offenders. Arguments in favour of a consent requirement for neurointerventions can take two forms. First, according to absolutist views, neurointerventions shouldneverbe administered without an offender’s informed consent. However, I argue that these views a…Read more
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12Cognitive Diminishments and Crime Prevention: “Too Smart for the Rest of Us”?Neuroethics 15 (1): 1-13. 2022.In this paper, I discuss whether it is ever morally permissible to diminish the cognitive abilities or capacities of some cognitively gifted offenders whose ability to commit their crimes successfully relies on them possessing these abilities or capacities. I suggest that, given such cognitive diminishments may prevent such offenders from re-offending and causing others considerable harm, this provides us with at least one good moral reason in favour of employing them. After setting out more cle…Read more
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45Direct Brain Interventions, Changing Values and the Argument from Objectification – a Reply to Elizabeth ShawNeuroethics 11 (2): 217-227. 2017.This paper critically discusses the argument from objectification – as recently presented by Elizabeth Shaw – against mandatory direct brain interventions targeting criminal offenders’ values as part of rehabilitative or reformative schemes. Shaw contends that such DBIs would objectify offenders because a DBI “excludes offenders by portraying them as a group to whom we need not listen” and “implies that offenders are radically defective with regard to one of the most fundamental aspects of their…Read more
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Roskilde UniversityPost-doctoral Fellow
Roskilde, Denmark
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy, Misc |