Preventive Justice
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The system of measures taken by government with reference to the direct prevention of crime. It generally consiste in obliging those persons whom there ls probable ground to suspect of future misbehavior to give full assurance to the public that such offense as Is apprehended shall not happen, by finding pledges or securities to keep the peace or for their good behavior.
See 4 Bl. Comin. 251; 4 Steph. Comm. 290.