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Electronically Monitored Punishment : International and Critical Perspectives - Mike Nellis

Electronically Monitored Punishment

International and Critical Perspectives

By: Mike Nellis (Editor), Kristel Beyens (Editor), Dan Kaminski (Editor)

Hardcover | 16 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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.

Industry Reviews

"The book provides accounts of electronic monitoring from an impressive variety of international perspectives. These include accounts from several European countries, as well as countries in North America and Australasia... It is anticipated that this collection provides a more detailed understanding upon which further research can be built." - Ella Holdsworth, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol 53 No 2. May 2014

"This book is an outstanding contribution to the growing body of work on electronic monitoring. In terms of both the themes addressed and the geographic reach, it is an ambitious undertaking, which is impressively realised." - Dr. Jamie Bennett, Prison Service Journal

"This is a fine and important book that definitely fills a gap and is to be commended to anyone interested in punishment and control." - Prof. Tom Daems, Leuven Institute of Criminology, British Journal of Criminology

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