The Return of Lombroso? Ethical Aspects of (Visions of) Preventive Forensic Screening

Munthe, Christian; Radovic, Susanna

But what, then, is the institutional context of a Lombrosian programme, what practice ethos does it express and what is its role in a good society? These questions, it seems, remain to be analysed, while being essential for understanding the ethical basis for assessing among and within the 27 variants sketched out earlier. Such an analysis, moreover, would determine what concrete limits might be justified for effective new Lombrosian programmes, e.g. with regard to autonomy restrictions, on the basis of various suggested principles for assessing the ethics of public health and criminal law policy interventions.