Electronic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System of the UAE & France

Abstract

The Electronic Monitoring is one of the new topics in the field of criminal justice, as it represents the development of modern techniques in the enforcement of penalties by replacing custodial penalties with a penalty of home confinement or restricting the person's freedom in his home through the use of Electronic Monitoring techniques. The UAE law and French law have introduced and implemented Electronic Monitoring. This paper reviews and compares the temporary placement of the accused under Electronic Monitoring instead of pretrial detention, placement under Electronic Monitoring as an alternative to custodial penalty, conditional release and placement under Electronic Monitoring, and finally placing juveniles under Electronic Monitoring in both the UAE and French legislation.