ABSTRACT
Instituted in December 1997 but effectively put into operation only in October 2000, electronic monitoring (EM), whether in the form of ‘tagging’ or ‘tracking’ has experienced at least six major reforms, in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009, with the objective of broadening the scope of its utilization. 1 Thus, long as its preliminaries may have been, it was able to gain a foothold, law after law, in all the various phases of the penal process. Today, tagging can be enforced during the pre-and post-trial phases, but also by the court, applicable as much to minors as to adults, and, since 2005, through the tracking device, applied as a safety measure to convicts once they have served the greater part of their sentence or even after they have served it.
