ELECTRONIC MONITORING AS A PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVE: AN ANALYSIS OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS IN THE BRAZILIAN REALITY

Abstract

Faced with the notorious reality of the Brazilian prison system, characterized
by the constant violation of fundamental human rights, it became essential to create public policies aimed at mitigating the transgressions committed. In this perspective, the main objective of this article is to analyze the efficiency of electronic monitoring as a way to reduce prison overcrowding, thus configuring an alternative to humanize criminal execution. In addition, it is also imperative to investigate the concrete conditions of such public policy, in order to make it possible to understand its applicability, through the argument of the real control and supervision of prisoners. For its construction, we used the deductive method of approach and the technique of bibliographic research. Furthermore, it made use of the study of normative and jurisprudential texts. In the end, the need for alternatives to the means of serving sentences present in Brazil became perceptible, due to the impossibility of the persistence of a system marked by transgressions. Thus, it is concluded that the implementation of the Electronic Monitoring System introduces, in theory, a humanized alternative of criminal sanction; however, marked by several flaws in its practical application.