Making Your Home a Shelter: Electronic Monitoring and Victim Re-entry in Domestic Violence Cases
The development of bilateral electronic monitoring BEM exemplifies how shifts in the "culture of control" Garland, 2001, including a focus on domestic violence DV victims' emotional welfare and integration into proceedings, can alter abused partners' everyday lives. As a protecti...
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Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
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2007
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The British journal of criminology
Año: 2007, Volumen: 47, Número: 1, Páginas: 100-120 |
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Sumario: | The development of bilateral electronic monitoring BEM exemplifies how shifts in the "culture of control" Garland, 2001, including a focus on domestic violence DV victims' emotional welfare and integration into proceedings, can alter abused partners' everyday lives. As a protective strategy, BEM provides DV victims with an alternative to relocating to a shelter. The subjective sense of safety engendered by program involvement emerges gradually, as everyday environments are re-evaluated in light of an estranged partner's absence; through social interactions with family members, friends, and justice agents; and as the understanding of what it means to be "protected" develops. The use of BEM technology to promote victim welfare rather than as a strictly evidentiary tool suggests that this expression of the new paradigm of justice is oriented toward victim re-entry into civil society |
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ISSN: | 0007-0955 |