Caseworker Surveillance

The author's philosophy was to determine that even though the use of electronic monitoring may work to monitor a defendant while waiting for trial, there are still crucial reason to believe that traditional caseworker surveillance is still needed. The authors also wanted to determine which surveillance style and which agency was more geared toward control crime, performing risk management, treat and assist. With that said, the author reviewed many articles to measure the importance of electronic monitoring or using caseworker surveillance or both. Also, a quantitative study was conducted using three U.S. based agencies which use GPS to monitor their domestic Violence defendant. After all, it was noted that the interactive surveillance styles do more than just surveillance, it also provides a face to face

Information is banked for as needed basis. They believed that this digital data collection system took over the ordinary way of using caseworkers for surveillance, and this type of data collection is just to keep thing silent until there is a need to reveal it (Ibarra, Gur & Erez, 2014). The author seems to have appreciated the use of caseworker over the use of an electronic system to monitor criminals, most particularly, defendant of domestic violence.

The author uses many signaling words such as pervasive, ubiquitous and more to emphasize how the use of Electronic Monitoring (EM) has taking over in the United States correctional agencies. It is believed that this issue is concerning because GPS is taking over traditional approaches to human supervision which may not have the capacity to measure all aspect of the supervision. The statement identified the research approach. For example, the author referred to the need to conduct qualitative and quantitative studies to measure the use of GPS in domestic violence cases. The author did not mention about the participants; instead, the authors