Electronic Monitoring Tagging Offenders in a Culture of Surveillance
This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring). With increasingly overcrowded prisons, electronic tagging has been proposed as an alternative
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Electronic Monitoring
Tom Daems
Electronic Monitoring Tagging Offenders in a Culture of Surveillance
Tom Daems KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium
ISBN 978-3-030-34038-4 ISBN 978-3-030-34039-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34039-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: lorenzo rossi/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
This little book grew out of an interest in electronic monitoring (hereinafter: EM) that started two decades ago. As a last-year criminology student in Leuven, I did an internship in the prison of Saint-Gilles in Brussels, Belgium, where the first experiment with EM took place. These were exciting times, in particular for a young criminology student: my first experiences with prison life—Saint-Gilles is one of Belgium’s most notorious so-called Ducpétiaux prisons (named after the famous nineteenth-century prison reformer Édouard Ducpétiaux; it became operational in 1884 and is scheduled to close its doors in 2022)—coincided with Belgium’s first steps towards introducing EM. Past and future seldomly meet so well before one’s eyes. I vividly remember spending many evening hours making photocopies of a lengthy German-language research report on ‘Social Control Technologies’ on a Xerox machine in the administrative office of the old prison. I also recall the energy and enthusiasm surrounding EM as well as the vehement opposition it provoked. EM was, from its early beginnings, controversial—just like the modern prison, so Michel Foucault might have argued, if he were still alive and able to write on the birth of EM. During my Ph.D. studies, I came across the 1977 book De funk
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