Define and Explain Intensive Supervision Electronic Monitoring and School Probation and Their Essay

Criminal Justice

Intensive supervision programs are alternative law enforcement methods used to "promote public safety through increased accountability that can include electronic monitoring, increased drug/alcohol testing and unannounced home or work contacts," (State of Wyoming Department of Corrections, 2013). Instead of sending a juvenile delinquent to a detention center or prison, the criminal justice system can use intensive supervision to promote the personal welfare of the individual while also ensuring public safety. Intensive supervision is a form of probation, which is itself an alternative to imprisonment. From the perspective of criminal justice officials, intensive supervision helps to reduce prison overcrowding ("Probation and Parole: Supervision - Intensive Supervision," 2013).

Methods of intensive supervision vary from state to state and jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some areas, electronic monitoring is the primary method used to ensure that curfews are being obeyed. Intensive supervision will often entail home supervision as well as continual monitoring throughout the day. A curfew is generally integral to intensive supervision regardless of whether electronic monitoring is used (Markham, 2012).

Electronic monitoring can entail the use of an ankle bracelet or the embedding of a radio frequency identification system (RFID) into an individual's identification card. In…