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

Nellis, Mike

doi:10.1007/s10611-014-9540-8

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“…On asiakkaiden kuntoutusprosessin näkö-kulmasta ongelmallista, jos valvottuun koevapauteen liittyvä valvonta jäsentyy rankaisemista painottavan repressiivisen lähtökohdan tai puhtaasti manageristisen logiikan mukaisesti. Vaikka kansainvälisesti sähköisen valvonnan yleistymisen voidaan katsoa osin liittyvän uusliberalistiseen kriminaalipolitiikkaan (Nellis 2014), suomalaisen valvotun koevapauden järjestelmän vahvuus perustuu pitkälti valvonnan ja kuntoutuksellisten elementtien tarkoituksenmukaiseen yhdistämiseen. Parhaimmillaan valvottu koevapaus yhdistää angloamerikkalaista uusintarikollisuuden ehkäisyyn tähtäävää rikoksentekijöiden kuntoutusta korostavaa perinnettä ja pohjoismaista asiakkaan sosiaalista kontekstia korostavaa hyvinvointivaltiollista perinnettä.…”

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Valvottu koevapaus ja siihen liittyvä päihdekuntoutus rikoksentekijöiden kuntoutuksessa

Rantanen

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2018

Janus

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Valvottu koevapaus on uudehko rangaistusmuoto, jossa yhdistyy sähköinen ja muu valvonta sekä erilaiset tukitoimet. Artikkelissa kysytään, miten valvottu koevapaus ja siihen liittyvä päihdekuntoutus tukevat rikostaustaisen asiakkaan kuntoutumista. Tutkimuksessa on haastateltu päihdetyöntekijöitä (n=12) ja asiakkaita (n=12). Tutkimus tuo esiin valvotun koevapauden ja siihen liittyvän päihdekuntoutuksen moninaiset myönteiset vaikutukset sekä kuntoutumisen prosessuaalisen luonteen ja muutosmotivaation vähittäisen rakentumisen. Tässä prosessissa paneutuva työntekijä-asiakassuhde on avainasemassa, mutta myös koevapauteen liittyvä valvonta tukee kuntoutumista. Toisaalta aineisto tuo esiin myös rangaistuksellisuuden ja kuntoutuksen jännitteisen luonteen sekä monia kehittämiskohteita. Yleisellä tasolla tutkimus tukee desistanssiteorian ajatusta rikollisuudesta irrottautumisen prosessin pitkäkestoisuudesta ja sosiaalisten olosuhteiden merkityksestä siinä.

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Valvottu koevapaus ja siihen liittyvä päihdekuntoutus rikoksentekijöiden kuntoutuksessa

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Lindqvist²

2018

Janus

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“…It was lukewarm towards plans to simply add-in GPS tracking to the existing forms of rf EM, arguing that it should be superceded completely. This was genuinely, if also recklessly, innovative, and not a little 'techno-utopian': it had demonstrably not happened in the USA, or in any of the European countries that had adopted GPS (Nellis, 2012(Nellis, , 2013b(Nellis, , 2014. Rather, it reflected the confidence of police officers associated with the Hertfordshire initiative, one of whom -Chris Miller, former Assistant Chief Constable in Hertfordshire, and former lead on electronic monitoring in the Association of Chief Police Officers -wrote the foreword to Policy Exchange's report.…”

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Upgrading electronic monitoring, downgrading probation: Reconfiguring ‘offender management’ in England and Wales

Nellis

2014

European Journal of Probation

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England and Wales is currently privatizing most of its Probation Service and simultaneously planning to create the largest and most advanced electronic monitoring (EM) scheme in the world, using combined GPS tracking and radio frequency technology. Downgrading one, upgrading the other. Using a mix of published and unpublished sources, discussions with some key players in these developments, (and a 'critical policy analysis' perspective), this article begins by documenting the post-2010 development of GPS tracking, and the emergence of strong police support for its large-scale use. It notes the role of a rightwing think tank, Policy Exchange, in promoting the view that the GPS-based tracking of offenders' movements is an intrinsically superior form of 'electronic monitoring' that should fully replace the discredited but still prevailing radio frequency EM, which can only restrict people to a single location. In the course of devising a third contract with commercial organizations to deliver EM, it transpired that the incumbent providers had been systematically overcharging the government for their services. Although a public scandal, and a series of official enquires -summarized here -resulted from this, the general momentum behind the outsourcing of penal interventions has not been slowed: the Conservative-led Coalition government is pursuing a relentlessly neoliberal agenda, driven far more by financial imperatives and technological preferences than anything that makes proper penal sense. The creation of a large, advanced GPS-based EM programme may not in fact work out in practice, but the government's readiness to envision it shows where untrammelled neoliberalism points in respect of 'offender management' techniques. Although England and Wales have always been anomalous in their fully privatized delivery of EM, its preparedness to invest massively in GPS tracking

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“…Bi-lateral exclusion orders have evidenced significant impact upon perpetrator behaviour (Erez et al, 2012) although they remain only partly focused on the victimised person. There have been similar experiments in England and Wales although they have remained small in scale and predominantly offender-focused because of comparatively high costs (Shute, 2007) and the inflexibility of existing Ministry of Justice contracts (Nellis, 2014). In contrast, the Buenos Aires case study (Paterson and Clamp, 20015) uses the repeatedly victimised person as the starting point for thinking about programme development and avoids the ideological tendency to focus policy purely on offender management The potential of victim-oriented EM programs lies within the uncertainty and ambiguity that exists in our individual and collective interpretations of surveillance which often leads to an amplification of its capacity (Paterson, 2007).…”

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

Paterson

2017

Probation Journal

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Electronic monitoring (EM) technologies or ‘tagging’, as the ankle bracelet is known, have been subject to much experimentation across the criminal justice landscape, yet there remains a good deal of conjecture concerning the purpose and subsequent effectiveness of these technologies. This article calls for renewed consideration of both the potential and pitfalls of radio frequency (RF) and global positioning by satellite (GPS) EM technologies and provides a victim-oriented perspective on future developments in EM. The author proposes further interrogation of the penal assumptions that underpin thinking about the use of EM as well as analysis of recent police experimentation with the technology. The article concludes with a call for a clear and strong probation voice in the renewed debates about EM that can guide and support ethical and effective policy and practice

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

Cited by 46 publications

References 24 publications

Valvottu koevapaus ja siihen liittyvä päihdekuntoutus rikoksentekijöiden kuntoutuksessa

Valvottu koevapaus ja siihen liittyvä päihdekuntoutus rikoksentekijöiden kuntoutuksessa

Upgrading electronic monitoring, downgrading probation: Reconfiguring ‘offender management’ in England and Wales

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

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