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Abstract: 

Tom Stacey is famous in Great Britain as a novelist, journalist, and publisher whose interests range from anthropology to environmental science to Islamism and the Middle East. But his importance for readers of Journal of Offender Monitoring comes from quite another source: In 1981, Stacey wrote a letter to the Times of London in which he put forward, for the first time, the idea that for some offenders, incarceration might be replaced by electronic monitoring. In this interview with Mike Nellis, Stacy shares his experiences and point of view on a range of current issues related to EM and tagging in Britain. (A shorter version of this interview was published in the British publication, Prison Service Journal. This is the complete interview.)

Keywords: Offender’s Tag Association; home detention curfew; HDC; Howard League

Affiliations:  1: School of Law University of Strathclyde.