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Designed for men, but also worn by women

Women offenders differ from male offenders in a number of respects. Overall they are less risky than men. They commit fewer, less serious offences and are less likely to be reconvicted. They also experience punishment differently to men and have different and more complex needs. Women's living...
By 
Ella Holdsworth and Anthea Hucklesbury
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
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Experiencing electronic monitoring

In Belgium, EM-supervision was extended to the national level in 2000 and received an explicit legal base in the 17 May 2006 Act on the External Legal Position of Prisoners. Over time there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of people being subjected to EM in Belgium. Belgian law...
By 
Delphine Vanhaelemeesch
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
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Pre-trial electronic monitoring in Portugal

The introduction of electronic monitoring (EM) in Portugal was a response to particular penal problems in the 1990s. Like many other European countries, we struggled with the growth of our prison population. Incarceration rates reached almost 150 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, and the...
By 
Nuno Caiado
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
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Data protection and electronic monitoring in Germany

Shelves with a length of 111 kilometres full of files on citizens, 1.7 million pictures, 27,600 tape recordings and 2,800 video recordings: this, according to the Federal Commissioner for its records, is the legacy of the Ministry for State Security of the former German Democratic Republic, better...
By 
Silke Eilzer
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
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Professionalising electronic monitoring in the Netherlands

Like England and Wales and Sweden, the Netherlands was one of the first European countries to show political and professional interest in electronic monitoring (EM), piloting a radio frequency scheme in 1995 and mainstreaming it as a national provision in 1999. Unlike England and Wales there was no...
By 
Michiel van der Veen
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
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Old and new uses of electronic monitoring in Sweden

Sweden had extensive experience in using noncustodial measures in order to decrease the use of imprisonment even before the advent of electronic monitoring (EM). ‘Conditional custodial sentences’ – made by judges but implemented by the Probation Service, who allow consenting offenders to serve...
By 
Jan Bungerfeldt
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
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Electonic monitoring: dangerous if left to its own devices

I first got interested in the electronic monitoring (EM) of offenders in 1989 when journalist Tom Stacey, who founded the Offender's Tag Association in 1981, wrote provocatively about its merits in Social Work Today, even as the government was establishing it as a stick with which to beat the...
By 
Mike Nellis
cjm 95: Electronic monitoring
News

G4S and Serco still being paid millions for tagging

The Ministry of Justice is continuing to pay controversial security firms G4S and Serco millions of pounds a month for electronic tagging, more than a year after both companies were supposedly banned from delivering such work. The revelation comes following an analysis of Ministry of Justice...

25 June 2015
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Sobriety tags: a good idea?

Writing in The Guardian, Deborah Orr comments on 'Sobriety tags' due to be trialled in four London boroughs. She explains that...

13 August 2014