Home Detention: Issues, Dilemmas and Impacts for Detainees' Co-Residing Family Members

Probation

“…Outside the home the stigma of a visible, wearable ankle bracelet can be intimidating to off enders: the diffi culties of fi nding or maintaining employment while wearing one is exacerbated for some, particularly when the media portray tagged off enders in disparaging terms. Overall, the core message of off ender perspective research on EM is that while most off enders do fi nd them onerous, they are largely preferred to imprisonment (not least because family ties are maintained) (Staples 2005 ;Martinovic 2007 ;Vanhaelemeesch and Vander Beker 2012 ;Vanhaelemeesch et al 2013 ). Compliance with EM sanctions is more likely if off enders perceive them as legitimate responses to lawbreaking, and part of the challenge for professionals involved in monitoring is to identify the forms of EM and the conditions of its use, alongside other supportive measures, which most help off enders to reform and desist.…”

Prisoner futures: Sensing the signs of generativity

“…Other kinds of custodial environments exist beyond the prison, including the transformation of everyday residences to suit the requirements of post-prison home detention. Far from being a liberating and much desired alternative to the prison proper, such environments can prove extremely testing given the strange blend of free persons (family members, friends, partners) and persons under sentence (see Martinovic, 2007). When one adds to this the surveillance and monitoring procedures imposed by community corrections, generative capacities and opportunities are often pushed to the margins of post-prison life.…”