000002462 001__ 2462 000002462 005__ 20250228160736.0 000002462 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.2462 000002462 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bThesis 000002462 041__ $$aeng 000002462 245__ $$aFrontiers of Incarceration: An Overview of Electronic Monitoring in Cook County 000002462 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000002462 269__ $$a2020-06 000002462 336__ $$aThesis 000002462 502__ $$bB.A. 000002462 520__ $$aGiven the substantial cost of running carceral facilities in the United States and the overcrowding of jails and prisons, the number of individuals on electronic monitoring has dramatically risen during the last decade. Government officials have hailed electronic monitoring as the solution to mass incarceration while criminal justice activists have called electronic monitoring another form of incarceration. In particular, electronic monitoring has been criticized for violating individual’s right to privacy through unnecessary surveillance and movement restrictions. The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of electronic monitoring as an alternative to incarceration using interviews and survey data. The study concludes that electronic monitoring still operates as a punitive, rather than a rehabilitative form of criminal justice policy. Instead of thinking of electronic monitoring as identical to prison, electronic monitoring exists as an adaptation of mass incarceration to a political system that values economic efficiency and technology. Electronic Monitoring increases the ability of the state to surveil marginalized groups, specifically young, Black men. In order to create a rehabilitative carceral system Cook County must ease the movement restrictions of electronic monitoring and invest in long term social welfare. 000002462 6531_ $$aelectronic monitoring; Cook County jail; law and public safety; incarceration; criminal justice policy 000002462 690__ $$aHarris School of Public Policy Studies 000002462 690__ $$aThe College 000002462 691__ $$aGeographical Sciences 000002462 691__ $$aChicago Studies Theses and Capstones 000002462 691__ $$aPublic Policy Theses 000002462 692__ $$aChicago Studies 000002462 7001_ $$aIdowu, Ayomikun$$uUniversity of Chicago 000002462 72012 $$aSorcha Brophy 000002462 72012 $$aMichael Conzen 000002462 72014 $$aNikita Jain 000002462 8564_ $$9b30253be-4a55-42ff-891d-7dfcbb43c3ce$$s2492804$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2462/files/Idowu%2C%20Ayomikun.pdf$$ePublic 000002462 908__ $$aI agree 000002462 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:2462$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pTheses 000002462 983__ $$aThesis