Persuasive Technology: Moving Beyond Restriction to Rehabilitation
Author: April Pattavina, Ph.D..; Karin Tusinksi-Miosky, Ph.D..; James M. Byrne, Ph.D..
Source: Volume 23, Number 01, Spring/Summer 2010 , pp.4-8(5)
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Abstract:
Advocates of EM have promoted the technology as cost-effective, as a means to relieve prison overcrowding, and as a way to enhance rehabilitation. Others are more skeptical and claim that EM is intrusive, leads to “net-widening” (bringing more individuals into the criminal justice system, at greater expense, than is necessary for the public’s safety), and does not truly protect the public. If we continue to frame the role of EM technology in simple terms of offender control, we may overlook innovative possibilities EM may have for promoting offender change.Keywords: cognitive-behavioral therapy
Affiliations:
1: University of Massachusetts at Lowell; 2: University of Massachusetts at Lowell; 3: University of Massachusetts at Lowell.