Review essay: Selling justice: Electronic monitoring and the security industry

1 September 1992

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Justice Quarterly

Vol. 9 (3) , 493-503
https://doi.org/10.1080/07418829200091491

Abstract

Electronic monitoring is not like other criminal justice fads because it is part of a “corrections-commercial complex.” This complex in turn is part of transnational criminal justice enterprises that have connections to the modern security industry. As a marketable product, electronic monitoring appeals to some post-Cold War military defense contractors' need to redesign and diversify technology. “Technofallacies” aside, electronic monitoring is not likely to go away.

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