Instead of justice being meted out from monstrously large edifices built to manage an endless flow of bodies, Feinblatt’s 21st-century vision calls for dozens of smaller complexes scattered around an area and linked by computer. They wouldn’t be designed as courthouses, but restoration centers, with everything from schools to hospital clinics interlinked with the courts.
Predictor: Feinblatt, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Shaun Assael interviews John Feinblatt, a criminal justice futurist. Assael writes: ”Feinblatt’s lab may well become a prototype for the self-contained justice center of the future. Instead of justice being meted out from monstrously large edifices built to manage an endless flow of bodies, Feinblatt’s 21st-century vision calls for dozens of smaller complexes scattered around an area and linked by computer. They wouldn’t be designed as courthouses, but restoration centers, with everything from schools to hospital clinics interlinked with the courts. ‘Technology is never the goal,’ Feinblatt says. ‘The whole point is to use it to be as reflective as possible. We know very little about the 100,000 people who come through this system. In three years, we’re going to know a whole lot more.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Crime/Fraud/Terrorism
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: RoboCourt: In New York’s Times Square, They’re Trying to Move Justice from Expert Witnesses to Expert Systems
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/robocourt_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney