NDLI: Understanding the electronic monitoring of offenders in Europe: expansion, regulation and prospects

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Nellis, Mike
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The electronic monitoring (EM) of offenders, mostly using radio frequency (RF) technology to enforce home confinement, has been practiced in Europe for a quarter century. At least twenty seven countries make use it, at a range of points in the penal process. More seem likely to adopt it in the future. Few countries use it on a very large scale, compared to prisons and other community sanctions. Nowhere has it had a transformative effect on penal practice, although some countries have used it more wisely than others. In Western Europe, Germany has been the most reluctant user of RF EM, while the Scandinavian countries, Denmark especially, have arguably made the most creative use of RF EM in the context of their conditional prison sentences, to augment existing support and rehabilitation services for offenders. Some Eastern European and Balkan countries have sometimes used EM without the constraining effects of “probation values”. Pan–European attempts by the CEP (The European Probation Organisation) and the Council of Europe to shape and constrain the development of EM, given the perception that it could easily become a repressive technology, have been of some value. GPS tracking of high risk offenders now exists on a very small scale in a number of European countries, but government aspirations in England and Wales, which may or may not come to fruition, to develop a large scale GPS-based programme in the near future may signal the beginnings of an attempt to the use EM in more penally transformative ways, although it is probation rather than prison use which may be diminished as a result. The conclusion suggests that EM should be understood as a form of e-governance, that it should be theorized in terms of the “network society” and that its expansion is an expression of neoliberal penality.
Starting Page	489
Ending Page	510
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09254994
Journal	Crime, Law and Social Change
Volume Number	62
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15730751
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-09-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Criminology & Criminal Justice Criminal Law Political Science Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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