Operational Criminology: Leslie Wilkins and the Origins of Predictive Systems.
How are we to understand the historical origins of contemporary predictive systems? How have criminologists designed methods that were built into these systems? The article responds to these questions by narrating a prehistory of predictive systems and the work of British criminologist Leslie Thomas...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 231 - 249 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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