Can we predict who will turn to crime? ‘Minority Report’ computers may soon mark out children as ‘likely criminals’

Data analysis could help point out criminals at a young age
This could lead to pre-classifying some children as ‘likely criminals’
So far, algorithms are able to accurately who may be a low-risk individual
But they are still not as accurate in predicting who might commit a crime

By PAUL MCGORRERY and DAWN GILMORE
DailyMail.com
9 August 2016

Is it possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future?

It sounds like an idea from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report.

But that’s what statistical researcher Richard Berk, from the University of Pennsylvania, hopes to find out from work he’s carried out this year in Norway.

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