Viabilidade do monitoramento eletrônico no sistema carcerário brasileiro

Abstract

This paper focuses on discussing electronic monitoring as an alternative to overcrowded Brazilian prison system, giving prisoner conditions in planned situations, completing his sentence with dignity. Electronic surveillance is a new alternative to rescue the state control over the convicts supported technology. Although the advantages of electronic monitoring are easily listed, there are practical issues that need to be overcome so that the effectiveness of electronic monitoring be expanded and their desired results are met in full. Using bibliographic and documentary research, this qualitative study intends to present the state of the art in legal discussions about the electronic monitoring of convicts, confronting theory and jurisprudence with the actual practice of this measure in the country in order to assess its viability in the face of conditions sociocultural and techniques of the current Brazilian scenario.