Of predictive policing and punishment

• Main Author: Quek, Kelly Wan Wen
• Other Authors: Preston Huw Richards Greene
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73557
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper will start off by looking at the current predictive policing tools in the United States and China, two of the most populous and technologically advanced countries in the world. Given the reduction of legal resources and heightened security climate globally, there is a need for the police to work smarter, with the help with mathematical algorithms based on scientific studies and historical crime records. And if they predictive policing tools are able to predict crime, what is stopping us from prepunishing the would-be offenders? Perhaps the only obstacle is that predictive policing tools are at best estimates for potential crime but never the giver of full knowledge of would-be crime.