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RESULTS• Automated tools are needed to quickly identify the most important criminogenic risks or needs to target for each case.• Technology should be leveraged to identify prosocial behaviors, deliver positive reinforcement, and support incentive programs for offenders.• Technology is needed to support more-effective officer training, assess whether training is implemented with fidelity, and facilitate timely feedback to the officer.• Research is needed to evaluate the impact of a more mobile workforce on outcomes; best practices are needed to guide agencies as they implement mobility strategies.• Evaluations of technology-based approaches to supervising lower-risk offenders are needed.• Modern methods of communicating with offenders (e.g., text, chat, and social media) should be evaluated for effectiveness.• Research is needed to guide more-effective implementation of location-monitoring technologies.• Research is needed to determine the predictive value of offender data (e.g., movement patterns) on recidivism.• Analytic and visualization tools should be leveraged to convert voluminous data sets into actionable intelligence.• Research is needed on the effectiveness of automated reminder strategies to reduce failure to appear violations.

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The corrections system in the U.S. is supervising over five million offenders. This number is rising fast and so are the direct and indirect costs to society. To improve supervision and reduce the cost of parole and probation, first generation home arrest systems were introduced in 1987. While these systems proved to be helpful to the corrections system, their scope is rather limited because they only cover an offender at a single location and provide only a partial time coverage. To correct the limitations of first-generation systems, second-generation wide area continuous electronic offender monitoring systems, designed to monitor the offender at all times and locations, are now on the drawing board. These systems use radio frequency location technology to track the position of offenders. The challenge for this technology is the development of reliable personal locator devices that are small, lightweight, with long operational battery life, and indoors/outdoors accuracy of 100 meters or less. At the center of a second-generation system is a database that specifies the offender's home, workplace, commute, and time the offender should be found in each. The database could also define areas from which the offender is excluded. To test compliance, the system would compare the observed coordinates of the offender with the stored location for a given time interval. Database logfiles will also enable law enforcement to determine if a monitored offender was present at a crime scene and thus include or exclude the offender as a potential suspect.