This article by Julie Morse for the Pacific Standard summarizes some interesting research by UC Berkeley Law Professor Kate Weisburd. She did work on the use of electronic monitoring with juveniles in California and found that in many cases it failed to save money, was extremely punitive and often landed young people back behind bars. She calls for a re-think of the legal status of EM as well. Very thought-provoking and great to see that some legal scholars are now looking at this through a lens other than recidivism. Now we just need to deepen the dialog about the “rights of the monitored.”
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Link to Professor Weisbrud’s article on her research:
http://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/ILR_101-1_Weisburd.pdf
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