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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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List of Resources:
 
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
 

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
 

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.    
ISBN 1 84082 630 4
UK
 

Electronic Monitoring of Released Prisoners: An Evaluation of the Home Detention Curfew Scheme (Findings) (PDF)
Mortimer, Ed, 2001
Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
Summary of research findings from main report (above) by Kath Dodgson et al.
ISSN 1473-8406
UK
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

Electronic Monitoring in Practice: the Second Year of the Trial of Curfew Orders (PDF)
May, Chris & Mortimer, Ed , 1997
Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
Report on the second year of the trial using electronic tagging to monitor curfew orders for adult offenders which examined the increased use of the order after greater accepatance amongst sentencers and probation.
ISBN 1 85893 997 6
UK
 

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