Review essay: Selling justice: Electronic monitoring and the security industry

Electronic monitoring is not like other criminal justice fads because it is part of a "corrections-commercial complex." This complex in turn is part of transnational criminal justice enterprises that have connections to the modern security industry. As a marketable product, electronic monitoring appeals to some post-Cold War military defense contractors' need to redesign and diversify technology. "Technofallacies" aside, electronic monitoring is not likely to go away.