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Comparing electronic monitoring regimes: length, breadth, depth, weight equals tightness

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This paper compares the use of electronic monitoring (EM) in three European jurisdictions – Belgium, England and the Netherlands. It suggests that rates of use, the accepted method of comparison in relation to imprisonment and a proxy measure of ‘punitiveness’, provide a misleading picture when applied to EM. This paper transforms the concept of ‘tightness’ (Crewe, 2011) from a dimension of weight to encompass the overlapping elements of length, breadth, depth and weight, to provide a framework for analysing how EM regimes are designed to disrupt the lives of monitored individuals. EM regimes are diverse and ‘tightness’ varied as much, if not more, within as between jurisdictions. Comparisons of ‘tightness’ also inverted the scale of ‘punitiveness’ produced using rates of use.
Tijdschrift: Punishment & Society
ISSN: 1462-4745
Issue: 1
Volume: 23
Pagina's: 88-106
Jaar van publicatie:2021
Trefwoorden:Electronic monitoring, comparative penology, community sentences
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BOF-publication weight:1
Auteurs:International
Authors from:Higher Education
Toegankelijkheid:Open