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DO ELECTRONIC TAGS REDUCE CRIME?

Monday May 14,2007

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THE number of prisoners who return to crime while wearing electronic tags has risen four-fold.

A worrying 1,214 yobs committed offences last year while supposedly subject to curfew under the Government’s controversial Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme.

That figure is a leap from the 294 who went back to crime in the first full year of the programme eight years ago.
And since HDC was introduced more than 1,000 violent offences – including a murder, four manslaughters and 56 woundings – have been committed by tagged prisoners.

Incredibly, officials blamed the rise on the fact that offenders are spending longer on the scheme. Critics last night slammed the programme as little more than a green light for criminals to reoffend and called for it to be scrapped.

*But what do YOU think? Do electronic tags reduce crime and alleviate prisons? Or are they a soft punishment? Have YOUR say.

IT'S ALL DOWN TO DESIGN

20.05.07, 10:39am

The current tags don't work as they are missing important features. They need to be extremely hard to remove and they need to react to breach of location e.g. by making some horrible noise / give an electric jolt if the criminal goes somewhere they aren't allowed to / too far from home.

• Posted by: legalal • Report Comment

DO ELECTRONIC TAGS REDUCE CRIME?

20.05.07, 2:42am

No. Because Tags are useless and naive of the authorities to use them simply because they can be CUT OFF by the criminal and thrown in the bin. The only positive way is to CHIP all serious Criminals and Paedophiles permanently and deep in the body so they can't be removed and they can be tracked for life right across Europe!!! If the Do-Gooders and Human Rights maniacs object, then they can go to Hell.

Arnold Forebush (for clean up Britain).

• Posted by: Arnoldforebush • Report Comment

DO ELECTRONIC TAGS REDUCE CRIME?

15.05.07, 9:11am

No, not a chance.
The following will reduce crime.
Long uncushy jail sentences, no TV, no pool, no exercise, no decent food, no phone and generally nothing but discomfort and misery, Alcatraz style.
I will tell you how to reduce child crime, knife crime, gun crime crime and indeed very serious crime, hang the scumbags, end of story.

• Posted by: Robertz • Report Comment

DO ELECTRONIC TAGS REDUCE CRIME?

15.05.07, 9:10am

• Posted by: Robertz • Report Comment

TRUE TRUE

14.05.07, 5:10pm

I agree with you on the enforcement part, but equally important is the tags themselves.
The current tags are monitored via mobile phone masts, which to some extent cover a lot of area.
But if one had to be tagged in the inner cities, then I very much doubt that the current system could cope not only with the enforcement aspect, but also the monitoring side.

As I said earlier simply covering the tag with foil will render it useless, as it will not be able to send or receive data. This applies also to oyster cards which also have surveillance capabilities.

I suspect that the technology is not quite at the stage where they could guarentee 100% monitoring, let alone enforcement.

• Posted by: MRMR • Report Comment