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The Six Month Limit to Community Measures ‘Under Prison Registry’: A Study of Professional Perception
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In this article, the authors deal with the sentence feasibility with a special focus on electronic monitoring and test the "six month limit" idea among practitioners, before the Prison Law was implemented, to determine whether they tailored their decisions accordingly; how they initially welcomed the reform and in particular whether they thought that a two years "mesure sous ecrou" was feasible; lastly, whether they had actually implemented the new two year limit and whether this had had an effect on how they perceived the six month absolute maximum.Abstract:
This paper deals with the sentence feasibility with a special focus on electronic monitoring. The purposes of this research were first to test the ‘six month limit’ idea amongst practitioners, before the Prison Law was implemented; second to determine whether they tailored their decisions accordingly; third, how they initially welcomed the reform and in particular whether they thought that a two years ‘mesure sous ecrou’ was feasible; lastly, whether they had actually implemented the new two year limit and whether this had had an effect on how they perceived the six month absolute maximum. The conclusions put forward some reasons for this limit from the professional's point of view.read more
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Understanding the electronic monitoring of offenders in Europe: expansion, regulation and prospects
TL;DR: The use of electronic monitoring (EM) of offenders, mostly using radio frequency (RF) technology to enforce home confinement, has been practiced in Europe for a quarter century as mentioned in this paper.
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Surveillance-Based Compliance using Electronic Monitoring
TL;DR: Electronic monitoring (EM) is a generic term for a number of remote surveillance technologies such as radio frequency (RF) curfew checking at single locations, biometric voice verification at single or multiple locations, remote alcohol monitoring (home-based breathalysers or mobile sobriety bracelets which measure the presence of alcohol transdermally) and GPS satellite tracking which monitors mobility and/or the perimeter of specified exclusion zones as discussed by the authors.
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French Prison Day Leave and the Rationale Behind It: Resocialisation or Prison Management?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw upon a number of previous research studies conducted by the author on the following topics: the legal theorisation of a sentence's implementation (Author 1994, 2017a); a quantitative-qualitative study of JAPs' practices, hearings and rulings (Author 2014); and a mixed method study of a so-called swift release procedure.
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Prisons and Their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life
Alison Liebling,Helen Arnold +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of the late modern Prison and the Question of Values in the development of modern modern prisons and their performance in terms of security, order, safety, well-being, personal development, family contact and decency.
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Exploring the dynamics of compliance with community penalties
Gwen Robinson,Fergus McNeill +1 more
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Pains of Probation: Effective Practice and Human Rights
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Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: penal adaptation and misadaptation
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts is presented, which explores the nature of the practice of social inquiry and explores the extent to which this practice is being reconfigured in line with the recent accounts of penal transformation.
Compliance and community penalties
TL;DR: The main purpose of this chapter is to attempt to provide some enrichment of the debates about the effectiveness of community penalties as mentioned in this paper, by placing such debates within a broader theoretical framework, namely that of theories of compliance.
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