Electronic Monitoring and Probation Practice

Probation

“…From the start, it was always in England and Wales that dystopian fears about the future trajectory and impact of EM were most easily grounded. A Conservative, nascently neoliberal, government piloted RF EM as a standalone sanction and handed delivery of service to contracted commercial organisations, rather than the probation service, whose social work ethos it never ceased to castigate, and whose continued existence it refused to assure (Nellis 1991(Nellis , 2003Mair and Nellis 2013 ). A succession of neoliberal governments continued to expand EM and to denigrate probation as a public sector service, culminating in its almost complete privatisation in early 2015, by a Conservative-led coalition government.…”

Tagging re-booted! Imagining the potential of victim-oriented electronic monitoring

“…This maturation discourse is challenged more sceptically by Kaminski (2016) who describes a process of gradualism, whereby sustained experimentation itself is seen as the evidence-base through which to demonstrate success and build credibility with key political stakeholders. This perspective is provided with further support by the Campbell Collaboration whose attempts to provide a rigorous overview of EM effectiveness research from across the globe have been stalled by an absence of reliable studies to use as source material (Nellis, 2016).…”

Electronic monitoring and supervision: A comparative perspective

“…alongside other supervisory conditions. As a wide range of surveillant/supervisory regimes of varying intensities and onerousness can be built around monitoring technologies (Nellis, 2016), it makes sense to further explore the nature of supervision in the context of EM and to look at how the idea of rehabilitation is transformed in an EM-context. This special issue starts from the idea that EM is not a neutral tool, but that its realities are mainly determined by the interplay of broader criminal justice politics, penal cultures and organizational constraints.…”

“…alongside other supervisory conditions. As a wide range of surveillant/supervisory regimes of varying intensities and onerousness can be built around monitoring technologies (Nellis, 2016), it makes sense to further explore the nature of supervision in the context of EM and to look at how the idea of rehabilitation is transformed in an EM-context.…”