Innovating Responses to Managing Risk: Exploring the Potential of a Victim-Focused Policing Strategy

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

“…The potential of EM as a tool to address re-offending rates emerged in the US during the 1990s and led to policy innovations that placed increased emphasis upon victims' interests. Victim-oriented electronic monitoring emerged out of these shifts, both through the introduction of bi-lateral monitoring which involved surveillance of both offenders and victims and exclusion orders which emphasised victim protection as the primary aim of the programme (Paterson and Clamp, 2015;Paterson, 2016). The innovative conceptualisation of the electronic monitoring of offenders was initially imagined by those outside of the penal field (Lilly, 1996) EM programs attempted to restrict the movement of offenders to their own domestic space at specified points of the day or night through the use of radio frequency (RF) technologies that would report absences from an agreed place to a central monitoring centre.…”

“…Police and probation officers can play a key role here in consistently promoting the message that an individual's security is their priority whilst the EM system simultaneously monitors the offender. Evidence of this policy leap are evident across diverse jurisdictions (Erez and Ibarra, 2007;Ferreira et al, 2012;Rosell, 2011 Paterson andClamp, 2015;), no doubt, in part, driven by the rise of victim voices in policy debates but also, less visibly, by the continued integration of digital technology into contemporary statecraft.…”

Police as Alert Responders? Lessons Learned about Perceived Roles and Responses from Pretrial GPS Supervision of Domestic Violence Defendants

“…Efforts to pair police with community correctional agencies continue to grow in popularity in the United States (Murphy, 2008) and are representative of a movement toward maintaining surveillance on high risk populations in the criminal justice system as a whole (Cotter and De Lint, 2009;Ibarra et al, 2014;Jannetta and Lachman, 2011;McGarrell et al, 2005;Paterson and Clamp, 2014). These partnerships have the potential to enhance public safety by adding focused deterrence and an additional layer of monitoring to known offenders under supervision, interrupting criminal behaviors through timely responses, and addressing locally specified crime problems through intelligence sharing (Jannetta andLachman, 2011: McGarrell et al, 2005;Murphy, 2008).…”

“…These partnerships have the potential to enhance public safety by adding focused deterrence and an additional layer of monitoring to known offenders under supervision, interrupting criminal behaviors through timely responses, and addressing locally specified crime problems through intelligence sharing (Jannetta andLachman, 2011: McGarrell et al, 2005;Murphy, 2008). To accomplish these objectives, interagency collaborations and victim-focused approaches must be viewed as a core police function, rather than simply being a series of buzzwords (Murphy, 2008;Paterson and Clamp, 2014;Worrall and Gaines, 2006). GPS technology has been employed as a tool to fulfill surveillance goals for criminal justice agencies.…”

“…Study participants have provided unique perspectives regarding their experiences with police and their expectations of police roles in a pretrial setting where GPS supervision is used to monitor high-risk defendants. In an era where the monitoring of offenders with GPS technology has rapidly expanded across the United States and has gained momentum in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Latin America (Cotter and De Lint, 2009;Ibarra et al, 2014;Paterson and Clamp, 2014), these perspectives generate insights as to how police can be leveraged to create new, or enhance existing, criminal justice responses to IPV/DV offenses. This study seeks to broaden knowledge on perceived police roles and responses in managing IPV/DV crimes, contribute to ongoing discussions of best practice for police and criminal justice system processing, and advance an agenda for future research focused on the extended roles of the police during and after IPV/DV encounters.…”