Electronically monitored punishment : international and critical perspectives / / edited by Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens and Dan Kaminski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463142503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-10302-5; 1-136-24278-3
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BeyensKristel; KaminskiDan; NellisMike
• Disciplina: 364.6/8
• Soggetti: Electronic monitoring of parolees and probationers; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: making sense of electronic monitoring; Part I National experiences; 1 The limits of techno-utopianism: electronic monitoring in the United States of America; 2 The evolution of electronic monitoring in Canada: from corrections to sentencing and beyond; 3 'Parallel tracks': probation and electronic monitoring in England, Wales and Scotland; 4 Extending the electronic net in Australia and New Zealand: developments in electronic monitoring down-under; 5 From voice verification to GPS tracking: the development of electronic monitoring in South Korea6 High level of support and high level of control: an efficient Swedish model of electronic monitoring?; 7 From tagging to tracking: beginnings and development of electronic monitoring in France; 8 Is the sky the limit? Eagerness for electronic monitoring in Belgium; 9 Bars in your head: electronic monitoring in the Netherlands; Part II Debates; 10 Surveillance, stigma and spatial constraint: the ethical challenges of electronic monitoring; 11 Commercial crime control and the development of electronically monitored punishment: a global perspective12 Insiders' views: ; offenders' and staff 's experiences of electronically monitored curfews; 13 Evaluative research on electronic monitoring; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 us