This paper analyzes how in predictive policing, data ‘make’ criminal futures that can be subjected to crime prevention. In doing so, it argues that the production of specific accounts of the future is predicated on the data practices of police departments.
Matthias Leese (2023) Enacting criminal futures: data practices and crime prevention, Policing and Society, 33:3, 333-347, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2022.2112192