How To Use Electronic Monitoring By Convicts Inside And Outside Prisons

Abstract

 The use of electronic monitoring is one of the modern methods of alternative policy of penal tolerance of convicts in the Iranian legal and penal system, which has currently been announced as a useful and effective solution in order to reduce the number of convicts sentenced to imprisonment and to depopulate prisons. Today, due to the heavy financial costs of keeping convicts in prison that have been incurred by the government and the prison organization, this modern innovative policy has entered the Iranian penal system to reduce costs in prisons and convicts, instead of enduring in prison, can be monitored at their place of residence by installing electronic systems without any cost and with a traffic radius determined by the court. This modern method has been used by the legislator, the government, judges, the judiciary, the prison organization, and even convicts sentenced to imprisonment. Research shows that in line with the policy of de-incarceration and reducing the number of convicts in prison, reducing crime and even at the level of criminal policy, the electronic tracking system is used as an effective solution for preventing and recidivism.