RT Article
T1 Under surveillance: an actor network theory ethnography of users’ experiences of electronic monitoring
JF European journal of criminology
VO 18
IS 6
SP 817
OP 835
A1 Berry, Carl R.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1788903455
AB Electronic monitoring (EM) tags are a punishment that utilizes surveillance to enforce curfews. This capacity has drawn debate as to whether it simply enforces the penalty or exists as a punishment itself. However, little empirical work has been conducted on users regarding the experience. The encroaching presence of mass surveillance has also been increasingly debated within criminology, amidst concerns concerning the capabilities of technologies to monitor and control citizens. This article will explore the impact of surveillance as a specific feature of EM to investigate how being monitored is experienced by users during sentences. It will principally draw upon the ethnographic approach of actor network theory – which argues that humans and non-human technologies ‘relationally’ coexist with each other – to explore this phenomenon.
K1 Electronic Monitoring
K1 Actor network theory
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 Punishment
K1 Surveillance
K1 Technology
DO 10.1177/1477370819882890