Moscow seeks "Precrime to the rescue!" @Felix_Light @CBSnews

Dec 02, 2021, 01:56 AM

Photo: Sanctions and world trade:  Punishment. 
            "In an interior, an old woman sits on a chair with a whip in her hand. On the left a child watching from behind a wall. At the bottom a line of Latin text."


"Pre-crime, a term coined by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, is increasingly used in academic literature to describe and criticise the tendency in criminal justice systems to focus on crimes not yet committed.  . . .   The term embodies a temporal paradox, suggesting both that a crime has not occurred and that the crime that has not occurred is a foregone conclusion.  . . . Precrime in criminology dates back to the positivist school in the late 19th century, especially to Cesare Lombroso's idea that there are 'born criminals', who can be recognized, even before they have committed any crime, on the basis of certain physical characteristics."


Moscow seeks "Precrime to the rescue!" @Felix_Light @CBSnews