Pre-Crime: Pre-Emption, Precaution and the Future

by Jude McCulloch and Dean Wilson

Pre-crime aims to pre-empt 'would-be-criminals' and predict future crime. Although the term is borrowed from science fiction, the drive to predict and pre-empt crime is a present-day reality. This book critically explores this major twenty-first century development in crime and justice.

This first in-depth study of pre-crime defines and describes different types of pre-crime and compares it to traditional post-crime and crime risk approaches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138065927
• ISBN13: 9781138065925
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"