Proponents of EM also claim that this technology helps to achieve another important penal objection, that of incapacitation; the prevention of crime. This is particularly important where EM has been introduced as an alternative to prison, and to reduce the level of overcrowding in a given jurisdiction’s prison system. In this video, Ed and David discuss various issues to do with electronic monitoring for crime prevention and investigation.
Major issues that they cover include:
- How effectively EM physically constrains offenders within particular spaces
- The extent to which more advanced EM can, and should, be used to prevent crime more generally
- The role EM can play in investigating and detecting crime
- The extent to which EM represents an intrusive and authoritarian form of punishment, especially when compared to imprisonment
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