Ankle Monitoring Devices

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the need for means of punishment other than incarceration and states there are several reasons for this, chief among them are economic. The paper continues and relates that other reasons concern whether the punishment (of incarceration) befits the nature of the crime. The paper then attempts to compare what the prognosis is for juveniles with ankle monitoring devices versus those who don't have to wear them.


Outline:
Problem/ Objective
Literature Review
History
Studies of Adult Electronic Monitoring as an extension of Juvenile Monitoring
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The use of electronic monitoring is not a recent phenomenon, though it has grown and become more formalized, becoming accepted throughout the United States and the rest of the world. The first electronic monitoring device was first developed in 1964. Ralph Schwitzgebel at Harvard University first designed the electronic monitoring system. William Hurd first conceived of the idea that it could be used for monitoring juvenile offenders. Here the juvenile offenders were not placed in their home environment but within the proximity of a repeater station, which probably housed the monitoring system. When an offender broke this curfew and moved outside the range of the repeater station, the "current" short circuited. This set off an alarm, which was the signal for the appropriate authorities to find the absconding individual."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Finn, M. A., & Muirhead-Steves, S. (2002). The effectiveness of electronic monitoring with violent male parolees. Justice Quarterly, 19(2), 293-312.
• Gable, R. K., & Gable, R. S. (2005). Electronic Monitoring: Positive Intervention Strategies. Federal Probation: A Journal of Correctional Philosophy and Practice, 69(1).
• Gable, R. S. (2008). Electronic Monitoring of Offenders: Can a Wayward Technology Be Redeemed? (1st ed.). New York: Springer.
• Glaser, D., & Watts, R. (1992). Electronic monitoring of offenders on probation. Judicature 76(3), 112-117.
• Lawriter. (1991). 109:5-1-02 Certification of electronic monitoring devices. Lawriter: Ohio Laws and Rules Retrieved April 17, 2008, from http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/109%3A5-1-02

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