This book seeks to redress this by providing academics, policy audiences and practitioners with the intellectual resources to understand and address the challenges which EM poses.

This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring).

This present literature review provides an overview of the emergence of electronic monitoring (EM) in corrections, the types of equipment used, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

There is rising concern about the rights of employees, especially with respect to their rights to privacy. Contributes to the debate and will point the way toward some solutions.

Empirically and empathetically driven, Portable Prisons is a telling exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland.

Electronic monitoring of offenders in the criminal justice system is a trend that continues to expand in the U.S. and abroad.

Drawing upon both ethnographic research and genealogical analysis, this book represents the first in-depth scientific analysis of criminal offenders’ electronic monitoring (EM) in Latin America’s largest country.

As educator, author, and activist James Kilgore brilliantly shows, these rapidly spreading reforms largely fall under the heading of “e-carceration”—a range of punitive technological interventions, from ankle monitors to facial ...

The expansion of the program across the U.S. and Canada followed rapidly. The papers in this collection were presented at the first Canadian conference held on this issue, in 1993.