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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...

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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...

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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...

News

National media cover our research on tagging contracts

You might have noticed that our work has been getting some media coverage recently. An analysis of government spending data by our Research and Policy Assistant, Matt Ford, published on 25 June, was picked up by a number of news...

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cjm 95: Electronic monitoring

In a series of articles focussing on electronic monitoring (EM), guest editor Mike Nellis and the contributors take an international perspective to consider how the use of EM is faring in countries such as Australia, Germany, the USA, Sweden and the UK. In the topical section, Nick Hardwick writes...