Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or after release from prison. Various technologies can be used, including voice verification, GPS satellite tracking and -- most commonly - the use of radio frequency to monitor house arrest. It originated in the USA in the 1980s and has spread to over 30 countries since then. This book explores the development of EM in a number of countries to give some indication of the diverse ways it has been utilized and of the complex politics which surrounds its use. A techno-utopian impulse underpins the origins of EM and has remained latent in its subsequent development elsewhere in the world, despite recognition that is it less capable of effecting penal transformations than its champions have hoped. This book devotes substantive chapters to the issues of privatisation, evaluation, offender perspectives and ethics. Whilst normatively more committed to the Swedish model, the book acknowledges that this may not represent the future of EM, whose untrammelled, commercially-driven development could have very alarming consequences for criminal justice. Both utopian and dystopian hopes have been invested in EM, but research on its impact is ambivalent and fragmented, and EM remains undertheorised, empirically and ethically. This book seeks to redress this by providing academics, policy audiences and practitioners with the intellectual resources to understand and address the challenges which EM poses.
| ISBN | 1843922738 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781843922735
(What's this?) | | Pages | 320 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Willan Publishing | | Published in | Cullompton | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 26 Sep 2012 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | HV9276.5 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | DEWEY | 363.68 | |
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Part 1 Introduction 1. Why Study Electronic Monitoring Now?, Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde), Ralph Bas (National Centre for Electronic Monitoring, Belgium), Kristel Beyens (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Dan Kaminski (Catholic University of Leuven) Part 2 EM - the Pioneering Countries 2. USA, Bob Lilly (Northern Kentucky University) and Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde) 3. Canada, Julian V Roberts (University of Ottawa) and Suzanne Wallace-Capretta (Department of Justice Canada) 4. Australia and New Zealand, Anita Gibbs (University of Oxford) and Russell Smith (Australian Institute of Criminology) Part 3 Selected Development of EM in Western Europe 5. England and Wales, Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde) and George Mair (Liverpool John Moores University) 6. Scotland, Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde) 7. Sweden, Hanns Hofer (University of Stockholm) 8. The Netherlands, Rene van Swaaningen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Jolande Uit Beijerse (Erasmus University Rotterdam) 9. Belgium, Ralf Bas (National Centre for Electronic Monitoring, Belgium), Kristel Beyens (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Dan Kaminski (Catholic University of Leuven) 10. France, Rene Levy (CESDIP) 11. Other Developments in Europe, Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde), Ralph Bas (National Centre for Electronic Monitoring, Belgium), Kristel Beyens (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Dan Kaminski (Catholic University of Leuven) Part 4 Key normative debates on EM 12. The Ethics of EM, Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde) 13. Evaluative Research on EM, Marc Renzema (Kutztown University) 14. EM and the Commercial-Corrections Complex, Detlef Nogala (CEPOL) and Bob Lilly (Northern Kentucky University) 15. Some Sociological Reflections on Electronic Monitoring, Anthony Bottoms (University of Cambridge)
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