Pre-Crime Society

<p>We now live in a pre-crime society in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization.</p><p> However such securitization comes at a cost - the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes.</p><p> This pioneering book explores relevant theories developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the 'ultramodern' age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects the authors propose new directions in crime control policy.</p>