For born criminals, criminal psychopaths and dangerous habitual offenders eliminatory penalties (capital punishment, indefinite confinement, castration etc.) were seen as appropriate (cf.Leon Radzinowicz/Roger Hood: A History of English Criminal Law, London 1986, pp. 231–387).
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The new "precrime" or "security society" requires a radically new criminology (Zedner 2007; Zedner 2009; Zedner 2010; Zedner 2014).
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Similar ideas were advocated by the Social Defense movement and, more recently, by what is seen and critizised as an emerging “new criminology” (Feeley/Simon 1992) or “actuary justice” (Feeley/Simon 1994).
The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess.