| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 犯罪防治研究所 === 102 === Electronic monitoring (EM) is an intermediate punishment in criminal justice system in Taiwan. EM deprives sex offenders of rehabilitation, and becomes a singular punishment mechanism, and government also expand the networks of surveillances in community, the objective of this research is to analyze the social exclusion、net-widening、media labeling and lifetime monitoring by parolees and probation officers. Data from a semi-structured interview, there are/were nine parolees and two probation officers, and use phenomenological content analysis to analyze all data.
EM leads to dynamic work、family、relationship and community exclusion between all sex offenders, and the technological flaws cause them fall into criminalization again；secondly, the effect of media labeling force them to be marginalized and receive unreasonable moral punishment of populism；thirdly, the aim of keeping society safe that government establish is enacting strict laws to hit sex crimes, also establish intensive social control networks under powerful legal surveillances；lastly, sex offenders need halfway supporters in community when they are out of prison with lost mind, and government should adopt positive educational treatment to defend society, not punishment only.
Key words: Electronic monitoring, Net-widening, Social exclusion, Media labeling, Lifetime monitoring
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