Pre-crime is focused on predicting and pre-empting the future by targeting, punishing, and/or incapacitating risky individuals or groups. Drawing on a range of literature, this book sets out a coherent framework for the continued study of pre-crime.

1. Introduction: pre-crime: pre-emption, precaution and the future 2. Before pre-crime 3. Risking the future: pre-emption, precaution and uncertainty 4. Pre-empting justice: pre-crime, precaution and counterterrorism 5. Pre-crime science, technology and surveillance 6. Evidence to intelligence: justice through the crystal ball 7. Creating terror: pre-crime, undercover agents and informants 8. Pre-crime: securing a just future.

Jude McCulloch is Professor of Criminology at Monash University. Her research focuses on the growing integration of crime and war and the impacts of this on justice, politics and society. Jude is on the editorial and advisory boards of leading national and international criminology and interdisciplinary journals. Her research spans counter terrorism laws and policing, police use of force and (in)security politics. She has published widely in scholarly journals as well as in the media and magazines. Jude's books include Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia, State Crime and Resistance (eds. Elizabeth Stanley and Jude McCulloch) and Borders and Crime (eds. Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering).

Dean Wilson is Professor of Criminology, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, UK. He has published widely in the areas of surveillance, border control, technology and security and the history of policing and criminal justice. He is a Director of the international Surveillance Studies Network and an Associate Editor of the journal Surveillance & Society.