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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113878169X
• ISBN13: 9781138781696
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"