ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the developments in completing the picture of children through the use and development of youth care related databases. Modes for identifying and preventing risks in youth care in the Netherlands are being reconfigured in unprecedented manners. Prevention is performed by a growing range of youth-care and law enforcement organizations, systems, and professionals. The problems they face include various forms of child abuse, anti-social behaviour, and medical problems. Attempts to solve these problems occur through the use of comprehensive digital means and the enrolment of ever more socio-technical practices of youth care, as well as an extension of what is thought to be relevant. Involved practices currently include the police, healthcare professionals, social workers, municipality administrators, educational institutions, and debt-counselling services. The risk categories and their attributions are based on behavioural scientific models and explicitly aimed at early detection of potential criminal behaviour of children.
