ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that how a digital identity of problem youth was created according to the rationale of zooming in. It therefore justifies the collection of ever more data and the use of profiles. To challenge the zooming in as a data mining metaphor by showing how it was done in practice and by drawing out the norms that were embedded in and produced through this chapter. The Burgcity case shows the limitations of the metaphor. It had one obvious limitation: there simply were not enough registered suspects in a neighbourhood to perform an analysis on. To conclude, a range of metaphors circulates digital identification practices such as data mining. The Data mining is argued to challenge traditional science, because, in contrast with statistical techniques such as regression analysis, the software allows the analyst to search for relations in the data without defining hypotheses and limiting the number of variables in advance.
