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Record Nr.

UNINA9910366572203321

Autore

Daems Tom

Titolo

Electronic Monitoring : Tagging Offenders in a Culture of Surveillance / / by Tom Daems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020

ISBN

9783030340391

3030340392

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 86 pages)

Disciplina

364.68

364.63

Soggetti

Corrections

Punishment

Crime - Sociological aspects

Human rights

Criminology

Critical criminology

Prison and Punishment

Crime and Society

Human Rights

Crime Control and Security

Critical Criminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Electronic Monitoring in a Culture of Surveillance -- 2. Functions of Electronic Monitoring: A to H -- 3. Functions of Electronic Monitoring: I to W -- 4. Defamiliarizing Electronic Monitoring.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring). With increasingly overcrowded prisons, electronic tagging has been proposed as an alternative form of punishment, and interest in this topic is growing throughout Europe. Current debates and research have often been limited to policy



evaluation and effectiveness, whereas Electronic Monitoring examines the brand of punishment from a social-science perspective. This book explores the uses and history of electronic tagging, and draws upon the work of the Dutch criminologist Willem Nagel to reflect upon this form of punishment by examining its functions and dysfunctions. It speaks to those interested in criminal justice reform, surveillance, penology and penal innovation and probation. .