Monitoring High-Risk Sex Offenders With GPS Technology: An Evaluation of the California Supervision Program, Final Report

Gies, Stephen V.; Gainey, Randy R.; Cohen, Marcia; Healy, Eoin; Duplantier, Dan; Yeide, Martha; Bekelman, Alan; Bobnis, Amanda; Hopps, Michael

doi:10.1037/e566812012-001

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“…Proponents argue that electronic monitoring can offer a level of control over non‐violent offenders that conventional forms of probation supervision cannot, that it may be more effective at reducing recidivism for some offenders than jail (Padgett et al, ) and be a low‐cost alternative to custody (National Audit Office, ). In relation to the newer technology of satellite tracking in particular, one evaluation in the USA of a programme using satellite tracking with high‐risk sex offenders found that offenders had better outcomes for both compliance and recidivism (Gies et al, ).…”

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The Role of Technology in Managing People Who Have Been Convicted of Internet Child Abuse Image Offences

Lilley

2016

Child Abuse Review

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The last 20 years have seen an explosion in the availability, ownership and use of devices used to access the internet. There has been a simultaneous increase in the number of people viewing child abuse images. The ease of access to this material online has removed a key inhibitor for offenders. Technology has facilitated the distribution of child abuse images, but is also used to prevent and identify offending, as well as to manage offenders. There is a range of technological tools currently used in England and Wales to manage those offenders who have been convicted of accessing child abuse images and who are living in the community. Some are specific to the computer as the situation of the crime. This article analyses the evidence base for each. The article concludes that each tool has features which might contribute to the management of internet child sex offenders, but that none have yet been proven or disproven to be effective. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Messages Technology to help manage the risk posed by internet child sex offenders is developing and may offer promise. None of these technological tools have been proven or disproven to be effective management tools for internet child sex offenders. Offender managers in the police and probation services should be mindful of this and not be overly reliant on them. Robust evaluations of these types of technology for these offenders are needed.

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The Role of Technology in Managing People Who Have Been Convicted of Internet Child Abuse Image Offences

Lilley

2016

Child Abuse Review

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“…Geis et al ( 2012 ) compared two large samples of such off enders between 2006 and 2009, over one year of supervision: both received treatment and supervision, but one also had GPS imposed on them. Each group was compared on rearrests, reconvictions, returns to prison and compliance with parole regulations, and on each criteria those on GPS scored better, not always massively, but suffi cient to give credence the additional intervention.…”

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Vanstone¹

2016

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“…To date, the experience of American EM programs suggests front-end [26,138] and backend effects [86,138] in some cases, but not others.…”

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“…EM can only inhibit offending through surveillance of offenders: at best, it offers early warning that a monitoree might offend [86], or deters monitorees from offending due to the increased likelihood of detection.…”

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Punitiveness in Australia: electronic monitoring vs the prison

Kornhauser¹,

Laster

2014

Crime Law Soc Change

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Internationally, the 200 year honeymoon with the prison may be ending. Research showing that imprisonment is ineffective in reducing crime is finally being heeded by some conservative governments committed to cost cutting. But, as this case-study of Victoria, Australia, again highlights, punishment regimes are neither universal nor rational. Bucking the trend, prison numbers in Victoria have increased dramatically over the last decade and are set to rise higher. The lingering lure of the prison here, we argue, is a manifestation of Australia's colonial history in which punitiveness has always competed with pragmatic innovation. Although the research findings are inconclusive, we contend that Electronic Monitoring (EM), while differently fraught, better meets the key objectives of sentencing. Using a counterfactual social science thought experiment in the form of an imagined Cabinet submission, we show how political decision makers might be persuaded to effect a shift from prison to EM if it is framed within the competing visions of Australian national identity. We argue that understanding how social policy decisions are made sharpens the scholarly research agenda and also highlights how the convergence of a unique set of non-rational cultural assumptions can shape major shifts (or near misses) in the history of punishment in a particular society.

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Monitoring High-Risk Sex Offenders With GPS Technology: An Evaluation of the California Supervision Program, Final Report

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