Overview
Electronic monitoring (hereafter EM) was first introduced in the United States in 1983 and has continued to be used for almost 30 years since. In the meantime, EM has spread across the globe and is either in habitual use or has been on trial in many countries. The reasons for the implementation of EM are diverse. That said, claims of prison overcrowding and the cost of building new prisons are overwhelmingly relied on to support its introduction. Intimately connected with these arguments are expectations that see in EM an affordable instrument that is cheaper than imprisonment. From a treatment perspective, EM is regarded as a more humane approach to deal with offenders. Its main objective is to have offenders refrain from committing offenses and, in the long run, to decrease recidivism.
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Haverkamp, R. (2014). Electronic Monitoring. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_570
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