Electronically Monitored Punishment : International and Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415625951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str.

Mike Nellis;Ralph Bas;Kristel Beyens

Opis

Drawing on recent developments in the sociology of punishment and crime control, this book develops a critical criminology perspective on electronic monitoring in selective countries around the world.

Spis treści

Introduction: making sense of electronic monitoring, Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens and Dan Kaminski,  Part I, National experiences; 1. The limits of techno-utopianism: electronic monitoring in the United States of America, J. Robert Lilly and Mike Nellis,  2. The evolution of electronic monitoring in Canada: from corrections to sentencing and beyond,  Suzanne Wallace-Capretta and Julian Roberts,  3. 'Parallel tracks': probation and electronic monitoring in England and Wales and Scotland, George Mair and Mike Nellis,  4. Extending the electronic net in Australia and New Zealand: developments in electronic monitoring down-under, Russell G. Smith and Anita Gibbs,  5. From voice verification to GPS tracking: the development of electronic monitoring in South Korea, Younoh Cho and Byung Bae Kim,  6. High level support and high level control: an efficient Swedish model of electronic monitoring? Inka Wennerberg,  7. From tagging to tracking: beginnings and devleopment of electronic monitoring in France, Rene Levy,  8. Is the sky the limit? Eagerness for electronic monitoring in Belgium, Kristel Beyens and Dan Kaminski, 9. Bars in your head: electronic monitoring in the Netherlands, Rene Van Swaaningen and Jolande Uit Beijerse, Part II, Debates;  10. Surveillance, stigma and spatial constraint: the ethical challenges of electronic monitoring, Mike Nellis,  11. Commercial crime control and the development of electronically monitored punishment: a global perspective, Craig Paterson,  12. Inside views: offender and staff experiences of electronically monitored curfew orders,  Anthea Hucklesby,  13. Evaluative research on electronic monitoring, Marc Renzema.

O autorze

Mike Nellis is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the School of Law, University of Strathclyde, UK. He was formerly a social worker with young offenders, has a PhD from the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge, and was involved in the training of probation officers at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on the fortunes of the probation service, alternatives to imprisonment and particularly the electronic monitoring of offenders.

Kristel Beyens is Professor of Penology and Criminology at the Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She has published on prison overcrowding, sentencing and the implementation of prison sentences and sentences in the community, such as electronic monitoring and community service. She is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Probation and of the European Working Group on Community Sanctions.

Dan Kaminski is Professor at the UCLouvain (University of Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium, and President of the CRID&P (Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Deviance and Penality). He holds a PhD in Criminology and has published on managerialism, penal treatment of drug use, prisoners' rights, alternatives to prison and electronic monitoring.