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This paper examines the efficacy of electronically monitored home confinement as a case management tool for probation and parole departments. Itcompares the frequency of success among offenders who would otherwise have had their liberty revoked with others who have more successfully adapted to community control. Data are drawn from community correctional populations in two metropolitan areas of a southwestern state in which electronically monitored home confinement is used almost exclusively as a sanction for offenders who evidence difficulty in complying with the conditions of theirrelease to the community. Analysis of these data indicate that electronic monitoring is an effective method of reducing revocations in community correctional populations.

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The Efficacy of Electronically Monitored Home Confinement As a Case Management Device

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