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Critically assess electronic 'tagging'. Include both technical and ethical considerations in your discussion. The prison population in England and Wales has risen considerably to more than 60,000 during the past few years. Government spending on imprisonment is at record levels. To imprison the current population costs in excess of £1.5 billion per year (Prison Reform Trust, 1997). This rapidly rising prison population not only in the UK but also in other parts of the world, and the obvious escalating costs to the taxpayer, has encouraged policy makers to consider the use of electronic monitoring as an alternative sanction to incarceration (Vass, 1990). The pressure to find a solution to prison overcrowding has contributed to the incredible growth in interest of electronic monitoring programmes around the world (Esteves, 1990; Baumer & Mendelsohn, 1992). For all practical purposes electronic monitoring equipment first became commercially available early in 1985 (Nellis, 1991; Baumer &...

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