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While a number of governments around the world purchase monitoring equipment from the private sector, the UK is one of the few jurisdictions to contract out its delivery. Comparative research on the performance is difficult since this is a service that the public sector has never performed.
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| The Electronic Monitoring of Adult Offenders (PDF) |
| House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, 2006 |
| The Stationery Office |
| The committee reported that the Home Office made 40% savings when it re-tendered the contracts for electronic monitoring. Financial penalties were also found to provide an incentive to improve performance targets. |
| HC 997 |
| UK |
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| The Electronic Monitoring of Adult Offenders (PDF) |
| National Audit Office (NAO), 2006 |
| The Stationery Office |
| NAO report showing that electronic monitoring of adult offenders provides value for money and a cost effective alternative to custody for low risk offenders. |
| ISBN: 0102936773 |
| UK |
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| Electronic Monitoring of Released Prisoners: An Evaluation of the Home Detention Curfew Scheme (PDF) |
| Dodgson, Kath; Goodwin, Philippa; Howard, Philip; Llewellyn-Thomas, Sian; Mortimer, Ed; Russell, Neil; and Weiner, Mark, 2001 |
| Home Office, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate |
| Evaluation of the first 16 months of the Home Detention Curfew scheme which surveys the profile of prisoners released early and their rate of recall to custody as well as conducting a cost benefit analysis of the scheme.
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| ISBN 1 84082 630 4 |
| UK |
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| Electronically Monitored Curfew as a Condition of Bail – Report of the Pilot (PDF) |
| Airs, Jennifer; Elliott Robin and Conrad, Esther, 2000 |
| Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate |
| Analysis of the two pilots testing the use of electronic tags for bailed prisoners which ran between April 1998 and August 1999. It reported some success but recorded some operational problems. |
| ISBN 1 84082 505 7 |
| UK |
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| Electronically Monitored Curfew for 10 to 15-Year Olds – Report of the Pilot (PDF) |
| Elliott, Robin; Airs, Jennifer; Easton, Claire and Lewis, Ruth, 2000 |
| Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate |
| Report on the pilot which tested the use of electronic tagging to monitor curfew orders for young offenders below the age of 16. It examines the operational implications, the effect on the offender and their family and potential cost savings. |
| ISBN 1 84082 542 1 |
| UK |
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| Home Detention Curfew – The First Year of Operation (PDF) |
| Dodgson, Kath & Mortimer, Ed, 1999 |
| Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate |
| Preliminary evaluation of HDC after its first year of operation looking at rates of release and recall and overall evaluation of the process. |
| ISSN 1364-6540 |
| UK |
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| Electronic Monitoring in Los Angeles County: A Case of Public-Private Partnership in Community Corrections |
| Zhang, Sheldon X, 1999 |
| Ch.7 of Contracting out Government Services; Seidenstat, Paul (ed.); Praeger Publishers |
| An analysis of the procurement and management of a home detention programme initiated by the Los Angeles Probation Department in 1992 to provide judges with an additional tool for punishing low risk offenders, following the failure of a scheme which had operated on a freelance basis. |
| ISBN 0 275 96542 2 |
| US |
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