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Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the
community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or
after release from prison. Various technologies can be used,
including voice verification, GPS satellite tracking and - most
commonly - the use of radio frequency to monitor house arrest. It
originated in the USA in the 1980s and has spread to over 30
countries since then. This book explores the development of EM in a
number of countries to give some indication of the diverse ways it
has been utilized and of the complex politics which surrounds its
use. A techno-utopian impulse underpins the origins of EM and has
remained latent in its subsequent development elsewhere in the
world, despite recognition that is it less capable of effecting
penal transformations than its champions have hoped. This book
devotes substantive chapters to the issues of privatisation,
evaluation, offender perspectives and ethics. Whilst normatively
more committed to the Swedish model, the book acknowledges that
this may not represent the future of EM, whose untrammelled,
commercially-driven development could have very alarming
consequences for criminal justice. Both utopian and dystopian hopes
have been invested in EM, but research on its impact is ambivalent
and fragmented, and EM remains undertheorised, empirically and
ethically. 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.
Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the
community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or
after release from prison. Various technologies can be used,
including voice verification, GPS satellite tracking and - most
commonly - the use of radio frequency to monitor house arrest. It
originated in the USA in the 1980s and has spread to over 30
countries since then. This book explores the development of EM in a
number of countries to give some indication of the diverse ways it
has been utilized and of the complex politics which surrounds its
use. A techno-utopian impulse underpins the origins of EM and has
remained latent in its subsequent development elsewhere in the
world, despite recognition that is it less capable of effecting
penal transformations than its champions have hoped. This book
devotes substantive chapters to the issues of privatisation,
evaluation, offender perspectives and ethics. Whilst normatively
more committed to the Swedish model, the book acknowledges that
this may not represent the future of EM, whose untrammelled,
commercially-driven development could have very alarming
consequences for criminal justice. Both utopian and dystopian hopes
have been invested in EM, but research on its impact is ambivalent
and fragmented, and EM remains undertheorised, empirically and
ethically. 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.
We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology
strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial
justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve
hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost
- the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice
functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered
through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores
relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional
practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the
'ultramodern' age of digital reality construction. Reviewing
pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new
directions in crime control policy.
This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale
and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution
across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and
researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal
justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to
policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community
programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological
perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies, they consider
the shifting roles and interactions of the public, private and
voluntary sectors. As privatisation, outsourcing and the impact of
market cultures spread further across the system, the authors look
ahead to future developments and signpost the way to reform in a
'post-market' criminal justice sphere.
This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale
and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution
across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and
researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal
justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to
policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community
programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological
perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies, they consider
the shifting roles and interactions of the public, private and
voluntary sectors. As privatisation, outsourcing and the impact of
market cultures spread further across the system, the authors look
ahead to future developments and signpost the way to reform in a
'post-market' criminal justice sphere.
The autobiography of an ex-offender and twice-times inmate of
Barlinnie Prison, now a social work team-leader in his native
Scotland. As a local hard case, author Allan Weaver took no
prisoners. Neither does he in this compelling work in which he
tells of a life of violent episodes and his chaotic early life.
Teachers, social workers and 'authority figures' never tried 'to
get to know him' to unearth the clues and triggers and discover
what his offending was all about. A natural rebel and a radical, it
is hardly surprising that by ignoring the real Allan Weaver this
led to an escalation of his violent activities, tensions between
family and friends and dubious associates. So You Think You Know
Me? is packed with contradictions: the Allan Weaver involved in
mayhem and aggression is not the one telling the story from inside
his own head: an often vulnerable, sensitive, articulate,
unquestionably loyal and even-handed individual; mistaken,
misguided and foolish perhaps but largely trapped by an increasing
need to live up to his 'tough guy' reputation. That there can be
any tidy ending to this graphic true-life account of approved
school, assessment centres, care homes, borstal and Glasgow's
notorious Barlinnie Prison is quite remarkable yet Allan Weaver
survived to obtain a degree from Strathclyde University and to work
on the inside of the Criminal Justice System with young people who,
like he was, are in trouble with the law. The punches that he now
throws are directed towards the shortcomings of a system which he
believes is failing to do all that it could to turn them away from
crime and anti-social behaviour as he explains in this heartfelt
autobiography. Essential reading for anyone involved with serious
young offenders, especially those of a violent disposition. Audio
from the book launch Launched at Glasgow School of Social Work, for
audio from the launch click here (external link to Institute for
Research and Innovation in Social Services website. Although we
have tested this site and found there to be no problems, Waterside
Press is not responsible for content of external links). Reviews
'Despite all the tribulations he faced in his early life Weaver
conveys his experiences with humour and affection. I thoroughly
recommend this book to anyone who wants to be reminded of why they
embarked on a career in the probation service' Probation Journal
'When Mr Weaver talks about the importance of tackling the causes
of crime, he does so from an unusual position of authority and
experience' The Scotsman 'There will be few who can match the range
and depth of his understanding... Weaver tells his story with
unflinching frankness. He does not glory in the life he lived, but
takes the reader into a world where it could seem to be just a part
of normality. Long-term prisoners are wont to speak of their lives
as a journey. One puts down this book reminded of how very long
that journey can be, of the distant, half-known country where it
can have begun, of the price it can exact and the importance of
nourishing hope' Independent Monitor 'A book that makes painful
reading at times, painful to read of the damage that Allan Weaver
caused to himself and others and their property, but also painful
to read how structures often combined, some would say colluded, to
take him further away from the person he could have been. But it is
a book that helps us better understand Allan Weaver, and those like
him, who, given a chance, can get away from their past and help
build a better future' Internet Law Book Reviews
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