ABSTRACT
This chapter refers mobility as the movement of both human and non-human actors from one place to another at a variety of different scales. It demonstrates the ways in which various sociological and penological theories have strong potential for synergy. The chapter emphasizes the continuities between traditional prison and electronic monitoring (EM) by seeing EM as a more sophisticated example of the way in which mobility is perfectly commensurate with confinement. It also argues that the increasing use of EM demonstrates the ways in which the punitiveness of confinement absolutely does not rely upon immobility. A body of penological literature examines the political uses, and experiences, of prisoner mobility to, between and within carceral establishments and it is possible to distil various aspects of the association between prisoner mobility and punitiveness from this literature. The chapter focuses on three ways in which mobility is used punitively within prison and detention centre space: as a source of discomfort, visibility and exposure.
