Electronic Surveillance: A Life (style) Sentence
- Discussion in French -
House arrest under electronic surveillance (such as the ankle monitor) has expanded the limits of criminal sentencing and is becoming more widespread in society while remaining heavily anchored within the philosophy of imprisonment. However does it achieve its touted objectives? How do the convicts and their families and friends deal with this injunction to serve a sentence within the privacy of their own homes? What forms of sentencing can we expect for the future?
With Marie-Sophie Devresse (Professor at the UCL School of Criminology, Research on assessing the electronic surveillance of convicts, 2006), Jean-Charles Froment (Professor of Public Law and Director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Droit, l'Histoire et l'Administration Publique - CERDAP, Co-Director of the composite work Justice et technologies. Surveillance électronique en Europe, PUG-CERDAP, 2007) and Pierre Reynaert (Former Director of the Centre National de Surveillance Electronique).
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