Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPOs) were introduced by the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 with the stated aim of providing additional tools for police to use in combatting increasing rates of knife crime in England and Wales. This article situates KCPOs within a continuous policy trend of procedural hybridization, and highlights the worrying manner in which such criminalization, underpinned by a preventive logic and facilitated by this hybrid procedure, enables new forms of ‘othering’. Drawing a threefold distinction within the concept of the regulatory subject—the responsible, the rational/virtuous and the difficult/other—it argues that preventive hybrids generate a self-fulfilling category of ‘difficult’ subjects, while simultaneously denying them the procedural protections normally afforded to the responsible subject of classical criminal law.

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“常见嫌疑人”：刀具犯罪预防令和“困难”监管主体

2019 年《进攻性武器法》引入了刀具犯罪预防令 (KCPO)，其既定目标是为警方提供额外的工具，用于打击英格兰和威尔士日益增长的刀具犯罪率。本文将 KCPO 置于程序混合的持续政策趋势中，并强调了这种以预防逻辑为基础并由这种混合程序促进的刑事定罪的令人担忧的方式，使新形式的“他者”成为可能。在监管主体的概念中进行三重区分——负责任的、理性的/有道德的和困难的/他者——它认为预防性混合产生了一个自我实现的“困难”主体类别，同时拒绝他们通常的程序保护赋予古典刑法的责任主体。