Typically you have to commit a crime before you are penalized for that crime, Cukier points out. However, maybe Raskolnikov gets a knock at his door. It’s a social worker arriving to offer services. “We’d like to help you.” Of course, this kind of intervention has its costs. Raskolnikov would become stigmatized in the eyes of his peers, or his school teachers. And after all, he hasn’t done anything wrong yet. Data analysis might tell us that he is likely to kill, but doesn’t he still have free will?