Home Incarceration With Electronic Monitoring (From Controversial Issues in Crime and Justice, P 147-165, 1988, Joseph E Scott and Travis Hirschi, eds. -- See NCJ-110235)

• NCJ Number: 110243
• Author(s): R A Ball; J R Lilly
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 19 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The growing use of home incarceration with electronic monitoring represents a disturbing trend toward total social discipline and the suppression of individuality.

Abstract

The movement toward home incarceration is part of a global effort to find alternatives to incarceration of offenders. Home incarceration appears to offer both theoretical and practical advantages. It takes account of the public's need for the symbolic value of an official finding of offender accountability. It also provides a clear statement of retribution, a utilitarian form of incapacitation, and the possibility of reformation within a more 'normal' environment than a prison. It is also an extremely flexible and divisible sentencing alternative. However, the use of home incarceration, particularly with the use of electronic monitoring, raises issues regarding both privacy and whether community-based corrections is tending toward a widening of the net of social control. 54 references.