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Electronic Monitoring of Nonviolent Convicted Felons: An Experiment in Home Detention in Marion County, Indiana, 1986-1988

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Principal Investigator(s): Baumer, Terry L.; Mendelsohn, Robert I.

Summary: The purpose of the study was to provide information about home detention monitoring systems and to evaluate their effectiveness. The principal investigators sought to determine (1) whether electronic monitoring systems relieved some of the burdens associated with manual monitoring of home detention, such as making telephone calls and field visits, (2) how home detention affected the lifestyles of offenders, (3) whether the methods of monitoring influenced offender behavior during t... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09587.v1

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