'Street-level Surveillance': Human Agency and the Electronic Monitoring of Offenders

Paterson, Craig

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“…On the one hand, the use of electronic monitoring to render homes and workplaces effective extensions of carceral space has become commonplace (Paterson, 2007;Gill, 2013). On the other hand, new-build prisons are often architecturally dull and characterless J M 2014: 8) and hide in plain sight (Moran et al, forthcoming).…”

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Carceral circuitry

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Progress in Human Geography

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Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This paper opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of D H teasing apart the emerging carceral landscape to provide a new critical epistemology for carceral geographies. In so doing, a meta-institutional agenda for critical carceral geography is derived, and possible ways to short-circuit carceral systems are revealed. KeywordsCarceral geography, circuit, circulation, counter-mapping, prison, institution. Nick Gill 1 , Deirdre Conlon, Dominique Moran and Andrew BurridgePlease note: the definitive version of this paper will appear in the journal Progress in Human Geography. This version is a pre-print, pre-proof version.1 Corresponding author, University of Exeter, UK. 2 Carceral Circuitry: Opening RemarksIn February 2016 the BBC (2016) reported the increasing use of drones to fly drugs, mobile phones and other contraband into British prisons. While no instances of smuggling by drones were detected in 2013, by 2015 33 instances had been recorded. The biggest find, in December 2015, featured a drone, drugs, a mobile phone, a phone charger and USB cards. Drone flights have reportedly become so common, especially during night hours, that prison staff find them unremarkable (The Guardian, 2016a). Dronedrops, alongside the stillincreasingly supplementing in-person smuggling such as during visits; with services on the outside.The rise of what the UK prison authorities call (The Guardian, 2016a) illustrates the unprecedented pressure that the prison boundary is under. The popular impression of prisons as impervious, closed-in on themselves and cut-off from the wider world is being challenged by rising prison populations and technological innovations that have precipitated all manner of mobilities and circulations both within prison walls and across them. Geographers have critically discussed G in order to call attention to this inter-connectedness of prisons and other carceral spaces (Moran, 2015;Fortes, 2015; although see Schliehe, forthcoming, for a recovery of Goff T intention has been to counter the imagination of a closed-off and sealed carceral institution, discussing instead the liminal spaces prisons (Moran, 2015: 90).These interventions beg the question of what an meta-institutional geography of the carceral would look like, meaning not simply a geography beyond them, combining supra-, sub-, inter-, intra-and extra-institutional imaginaries and perspectives. Carceral geography is in a strong positon to address such a question because, unlike prison studies, the subject of carcerality is not approached via an institutional lens at the level of the discipline itself. Rather, carceral geographers have already been at pains to emphasise the continuities that stretch across institutional boundaries (Allspach, 2010;Moran, 2015;Moran et al, 2014) providing an ideal foundation for ...

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“…On the one hand, the use of electronic monitoring to render homes and workplaces effective extensions of carceral space has become commonplace (Paterson, 2007;Gill, 2013) 6. Circuits can be mapped.…”

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Carceral circuitry

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“…The reasons for this are clear: offenders rarely want to comply with the restrictions placed upon them by technology and subsequently develop adaptive strategies that displace, resist and reformulate offending behaviour in new forms and arenas (Paterson, 2007). Thus, it seems peculiar that the role of technology in directly enhancing victim safety has been neglected in favour of a focus on offenders.…”

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“…A recent Policy Exchange (2012) unrealistic expectations, the failure of the electronic monitoring market, the top-down development of misguided policies, and the myopic offender-focus of criminal justice agencies (Paterson, 2007;. Despite this, we argue that there is indeed an important part that electronic monitoring can play in the criminal justice landscape and one that can assist with the re-invention of policing in a climate of demand reduction (Neyroud, 2012).…”

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Innovating Responses to Managing Risk: Exploring the Potential of a Victim-Focused Policing Strategy

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Surveillance as casework: supervising domestic violence defendants with GPS technology

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Erez

2014

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Academic discussion about surveillance tends to emphasize its proliferation, ubiquity, and impact on society, while neglecting to consider the continued relevance of traditional approaches to human supervision, an oversight insofar as surveillance is organized through practices embedded in justice system-based casework. Drawing from a multi-site study of pretrial personnel utilizing global positioning systems (GPS) technology for domestic violence cases in the U.S., a comparative analysis is offered to illustrate how the handling of a "problem population" varies across community corrections agencies as they implement surveillance regimes. In particular, the study finds that surveillance styles reflect whether an agency is directed toward crime control and risk management, providing treatment and assistance, or observing due process. These programmatic thrusts are expressed in how officers interact with offenders as cases, both directly and remotely. In contrast to the ambient monitoring of environments and populations through data-banking technologies, the interactive surveillance styles described in the present study highlight the role of casework in surveillance.

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'Street-level Surveillance': Human Agency and the Electronic Monitoring of Offenders

Cited by 19 publications

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Carceral circuitry

Carceral circuitry

Innovating Responses to Managing Risk: Exploring the Potential of a Victim-Focused Policing Strategy

Surveillance as casework: supervising domestic violence defendants with GPS technology

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