Recently, Professor Wang Lusheng's latest research achievement On Predictive Justice was published in the 6th issue of China Social Sciences in 2024. The article provides a systematic review of algorithmic prediction practices in the judicial field aimed at preventing potential harm.

Predictive justice is a judicial practice that uses predictive algorithms to mine the connections or patterns between data, automatically predicting various legally significant risk issues such as the likelihood of first-time offenders, personal danger, and recidivism risk in criminal justice, and supporting judicial personnel in making decisions such as arrest, prosecution, and probation. At present, while predictive justice is increasingly permeating the entire criminal justice process globally, it has also sparked a series of controversial and unresolved legal issues in theoretical research and judicial practice. Various parties have different attitudes towards the legitimacy and legality judgment of predictive justice.

Starting from the historical generation of predictive justice, this article systematically reviews the criminological and penal foundations, epistemology, and methodological development of predictive justice. On the basis of examining the practice of predictive justice in contemporary China, this paper depicts the logical evolution brought by predictive justice to traditional criminal justice in terms of connecting with society and participating in governance, and analyzes the potential internal conflicts it may have with traditional judicial values and systems in terms of procedural justice and substantive justice. Ultimately, it is proposed to establish a sustainable and dynamic coordination and balance mechanism between the application of predictive justice and regulation through collaborative governance, with the overall legitimacy of regulation cognition regulation as the starting point, in order to respond to the objective needs of national governance and regulate the potential risks of predictive justice.

It was reported that Chinese Social Sciences is a comprehensive social science journal supervised and sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It mainly publishes the latest and most important academic research results in the field of philosophy and social sciences in China, and is praised by the academic community as the highest level comprehensive philosophy and social science journal in China.

Wang Lusheng, Doctor of Law, Director of the Social Sciences Department, Young Chief Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor at Southeast University, Young Scholar of the National Major Talent Program, Chief Expert of the National Social Science Fund Major Project, Director of the Education Characteristic Base of the National Intelligent Social Governance Experiment (Southeast University), and President of the Digital Law Research Association of Jiangsu Law Society. He mainly engages in research in digital law, criminal procedure law, and judicial system science.

Published over 50 papers in various journals such as Chinese Social Sciences and Chinese Law; The paper has been reprinted 10 times by Xinhua Digest, Chinese Social Science Digest, and other publications; Hosted nearly 20 projects, including 4 national level projects such as the National Social Science Fund Major Project, National Social Science Fund Key Project, National Key R&D Program Project, and National Social Science Fund Youth Project.