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Electronic Monitoring: critical analysis from control sociology and the political economy of power

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  • Ignacio Peña Caroca Estudiante Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile
No. 18 (2013): Primer semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i18.29922

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to carry out an analysis of the evolution, implementation and significance of the Electronic Monitoring in Chile. This instrument was introduced in our country through law 20.603, to complement and reinforce two amended measures to deprivation of liberty: parcial imprisonment and probation. Secondly, this study attempts to review its application and effects in comparative law. Thus, this study seeks to unveil the purpose of the electronic wristband and its introduction in chilean law, in a context of absence of public debate regarding its implementation. In this sense, it tries to demonstrate that the purpose of this measure is to give the State the ability to intervene, through vigilance and control, in a scope that it couldn't do before the reform, id est, the subject's liberty in society. In third place, this work questions the application of this instrument, affirming that it becomes a surveillance mechanism, normalization and control of the individual's body, recognizes the reformative failure of prison and centres its simbolic effects in violence towards the subject and in the dissemination of control in society. Lastly, it is sustained in this work that EM is a measure that represents the privatisation ideal of justice, a characteristic of the Workfare, through the instalation of a prison and business speech in the State's punitive practices. This would have as consequence the ending of community bonds on society.    

Keywords:

electronic monitoring, probation, control, surveillance, punishment

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Peña Caroca, I. (2013). Electronic Monitoring: critical analysis from control sociology and the political economy of power. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (18), pp. 161–198. https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i18.29922
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Revista de Estudios de la Justicia
Facultad de Derecho
Universidad de Chile
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