When predicting who might be a prolific offender there are many potential patterns that have been identified at an early age. The best predictors for having a criminal conviction later in life, in adolescents who are 10 years old, are socio-economic deprivation, poor parental supervision and child rearing, antisocial parents and siblings, low intelligence, poor school records and coming from broken homes (Ratcliffe, 2008). The major issue with these variables are that they are unlikely to be available to the police department, therefore having little value on policing practices (Ratcliffe, 2008). From an operational standpoint the law enforcement cannot police, or predict policing through information that is not available to them. It may be
