What Is Pre-Emptive Justice?

Pre-emptive justice is the idea that you can, through testing predict when an individual is going to commit a crime in the future, and also what the nature of the crime will be. This seems on the surface a perfectly good idea, as surely it will cause the crime rates to be lowered and it fills some criteria’s of what the aim of punishment is. Such as the aim of punishment to Protect Society from the crime and the from the Criminal himself as he will not have to go through perhaps the trauma of reflecting on murdering someone, or have to worry about what will happen to him when he is released from prison, more importantly it would also mean that perhaps that a human being does not get murdered or a small child gets run over by someone drink driving.
Pre-emptive Justice would also agree the aim of punishment being Reformation, this is due to the fact that after finding out what the Human being is capable of committing in terms of crime, they would be arrested and sent to prison or rehabilitation centres for a period of time and put on programs to help ensure that they no longer are capable of committing the crime which they were before, or for any crime. This would also mean that instead of serving a Prison sentence for instance for murder, which could be up to thirty years they may only be in prison for a year as they have not actually committed the crime. Meaning that this would help to solve the crisis which faces every prison, that they have to little staff and overcrowded prisons, this is due to the fact that, with Pre-emptive justice there will be less long term criminals meaning that it would really put an end to overcrowding in
Can you actually predict a crime before it’s happened? The answer to one of these questions is very clear, so far we have not developed the technology to be able to enforce pre-emptive justice and have it as our main of punishment, although even if we could, would we want to live in a society where people may lose their right to free will and to change their minds? As stated before the major flaw with pre-emptive justice is that a person may change their mind at any time and so it would be hard to predict a crime reliably and therefore this could result in a miscarriage of justice. Yet regarding the other question, I do not think that pre-emptive justice would really work in today’s society as many people would fear that their minds could be read by the Government and therefore society could become scared of the Government. Along with this many people in modern society may be afraid of change and may not be willing to put faith in this new system and so they may rebel against it, more importantly than this some people in their minds may have thought about murder, shoplifting or drink driving, realised that it is morally wrong and then discarded the thought however people may become scared that they cannot think of anything violent in their minds as it is possible it could get picked up by the