 Pre-crime intervenes to punish, disrupt, incapacitate or restrict those deemed to embody future crime threats.The term "pre-crime" embodies a temporal paradox, suggesting both that a crime has not occurred and that the crime that has not occurred is a foregone conclusion.George Orwell introduced a similar concept in his 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" using the term "thoughtcrime" to describe illegal thoughts which held banned opinions about the ruling government or intentions to act against it.