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.


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.


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.

Contributions by: Pamela Ugwudike, Birgit Schippers, Thomas Holt, Jin Ree Lee, Natalie Deckard, Julia R Decook, Bianca C. Reisdorf, Mike Nellis, Kristen M. Budd, Terry Kupers, John Deukmedjian, Emmeline Taylor, Clare Southerton, Michael Mccahill, Marthinus Koen, Janne Gaub, Armon Tamatea, Brett Breton, Lisa Petot, Aaron Pycroft, David Polizzi, Gavin Smith, Pat O'Malley, Marc Schuilenburg, Faith Butta