This is a fantastic dive into how proto-criminologists began using numbers. Of course once you can predict, you can presumably also prevent. These efforts also eventually were the foundations of high modernism and overzealous human engineering.
That’s a really good point! Prediction certainly ought to imply prevention, at least to a limited extent. I feel another newsletter coming on, once I’ve given that a bit of thought…
This is a fantastic dive into how proto-criminologists began using numbers. Of course once you can predict, you can presumably also prevent. These efforts also eventually were the foundations of high modernism and overzealous human engineering.
very cool read!
That’s a really good point! Prediction certainly ought to imply prevention, at least to a limited extent. I feel another newsletter coming on, once I’ve given that a bit of thought…
We will address that broad question too in a series of posts.
Thank you for the restack, Aaron!