ABSTRACT
Since its legendary inception in the mind of a New Mexico judge inspired by Spiderman comics, the use of electronic monitoring as a correctional tool has grown in a manner most often described as “explosive” (U.S. Dept. of Justice 1990). From very isolated use in 1984, the use of electronic monitoring (hereafter EM) has expanded to at least 33 states (ACA1989), with a threefold increase during 1988 alone (Schmidt 1989).
