%0 Journal Article
%T Electronic monitoring and monitoring probation: The case of Ireland
%A Brian Moss
%J European Journal of Probation
%@ 2066-2203
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2066220318792067
%X Set against an environment of diverse reforms across the domestic criminal justice system, including new oversight arrangements, the current article considers how probation in Ireland has almost entirely escaped notice. A case for probation oversight is made on the basis of its caseload size but also a decade of unaccounted use of electronic monitoring (EM). Global EM use highlights questions about domestic probation standards, research and planning. Shortcomings within the legislative consultation process around the toolĄ¯s role, the lack of any evaluation of EM suppliers and increasing focus on data management to date also bolster a case for oversight of Irish probation. A principal issue within this set of challenges for probation is how EM might adjust traditional agency values. Overall, the contention is made that the assumed exceptionalism of Republic of IrelandĄ¯s criminal justice system, that which acts as a buffer to change, may no longer be valid
%K Electronic monitoring
%K inspection
%K Ireland
%K probation
%K values
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2066220318792067