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Abstract: 

After completing “30 Years and What Have We Learned?” Marc Renzema wanted to add a sense of the future direction of the field that would follow on the roundtable assessment of the first 30 years of electronic monitoring. Renzema sent the roundtable transcript to Bob and Kirk Gable, George Drake, and Joe Russo for comments and with a request for their thoughts on EM’s future direction, and the result is presented here. The Gable brothers are universally acknowledged as the pioneers in EM. Robert S. Gable (originally Schwitzgebel) is Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) at the Claremont Graduate School. As graduate students at Harvard in the 1960s, he and his twin brother, Kirkland, initiated the electronic monitoring of offenders. Kirkland R. Gable (originally Schwitzgebel) is Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) at California Lutheran University. He is a psychologist and lawyer who holds the first patent on the electronic monitoring of offenders. The Gables, as you will see below, are not pleased with what has happened to their brainchild. Nevertheless, they are cautiously optimistic and offer a path to improvements.

Keywords: NIJ; NLECTC; TWG; persuasive technology

Affiliations:  1: Kutztown University (Emeritus).