ABSTRACT
There are many recognizable Western aspects to the contemporary criminal justice system in the Republic of Korea, but probation for adults is a relatively new development, and many of the measures which were introduced intermittently in the West over the course of the twentieth century – basic probation orders, attendance centres, community service orders and electronic monitoring, including GPS tracking – have all been introduced into Korea over the last 25 years. Korea has been a keen observer of international developments in criminal justice, but there is no long-established adult probation tradition against which EM may seem anomalous or misguided.
