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Analítico de Periódico
NELLIS, Michael
Tom Stacey: "Founder" of Electronic Monitoring in the U.K.
The Journal of Offender Monitoring, Kingston, V.22,n.1(2009), p.16-26
DIREITO PROCESSUAL PENAL, VIGILÂNCIA ELECTRÓNICA, MEDIDAS ALTERNATIVAS, REINO UNIDO
Stacey's deep animus towards imprisonment for all but the most violent, disturbed, and professional criminals stimulated him to think of a new sort of alternative to it. - "We thought initially both of a curfew tag and a tracking tag, but the major potential was in tracking - and I still think that." - Aubrey Baring and I gave a press conference in early 1983 which got quite wide coverage - and a great deal of ridicule. - When Douglas Hurd became Home Secretary, he sent a junior minister to have a look at what was going on in Florida in the late 1980s. That led to Britain's first serious pilot project, in 1989. - The firts tagging effort was so badly thought out and mismanaged, it would have almost been better if it hadn't happened. - "After twenty-six years of visiting prisons, I know that the shock of arrest is admirable, the shock of that banging of the door, the utter coldness and fear of being banged up in prison - that is useful. Let it happen. But after, what will he or she gain from prison? Completely nothing but rotting away." - One of the paradoxes of the debate is that you seem to have one set of people who worry about the sinister Orwellian aspects of tagging and another group of people who try to portray it as a Mickey Mouse approach.