Electronic Monitoring Devices

Paper Summary:

This paper takes a look at the usage of electronic monitoring devices (EMDs) and discusses the various types EMDs available in the market today. The author provides a short history on the development of EMDs for use in house arrests and other community corrections programs and describes how the different types of EMDs function. The paper examines the necessary use of EMDs in keeping tabs on offenders but also cites the ethical and legal issues on this sort of monitoring. Other advantages and disadvantages such as savings in cost and rehabilitation enhancement are also discussed.

Outline:
Types of Electronic Monitoring Devices (EMDs)
House Arrest as a Community Corrections Program
History of EMD:
Necessity of EMDs
Advantages and Disadvantages
Ethical, Legal and Practical issues
Effectiveness of Electronic Monitoring
Issues centering around EMDs
References

From the Paper:

"Electronic Monitoring Devices -- EMDs are devices for electronic monitoring on criminals and other groups that are suspected to be involved in any illegal activity, inclusive of defendants who are under trail on conditional release and offenders who have already been convicted on probation or parole. Technically, Electronic Monitoring -- EM is a generic term which covers a broad spectrum of systems and its components. A lot of players dominate the industry, each offering a series of choices covering home monitoring devices, field monitoring devices, wrist and ankle bracelets, voice verification system and alcohol testing devices. There are either active or passive EM systems."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Black, Matt; Smith, Russell G. (n. d.) "Electronic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System" No. 254. Retrieved 28 March, 2008 from http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi254.pdf
• Caputo, Gail. (2004) "Intermediate Sanctions in corrections" University of North Texas Press.
• Clear, Todd R; Cole, George F. (2005) "American Corrections" Thomson Wadsworth.
• Cole, George F; Smith, Christopher E. (2004) "Criminal Justice in America" Thomson Wadsworth.
• DeMichele, Matthew; Payne, Brian; Button, Deeanna. (2007, Jan) "A Call for Evidence based policy" Retrieved 28 March, 2008 from http://www.csg.org/pubs/Documents/sn0701CallforEvidenceBasedPolicy.pdf

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