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Abstract: 

The status quo of electronic monitoring in the United States is unacceptable. Regimes are typically punitive, fees are often prohibitive, and there is no research or oversight to assess the impact. Moreover, practitioners are steeped in the ideology of mass incarceration, with parole and probation agents often acting more like police and detectives than individuals concerned with the success of their clients. Like mass incarceration, electronic monitoring needs an overhaul, a re-think, and a far less extensive and punitive presence. This article discusses an alternative agenda for electronic monitoring—one that offers a framework for research and action pertaining to electronic monitoring that coincides with notions of transformative justice.

Keywords: Electronic Monitoring, Surveillance Technologies, Mass Incarceration, Transformative Justice, Rights Of Individuals On EM

Affiliations:  1: Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow.