The Specificity of the Electronic Monitoring System in Algerian Legislation

Modern penal policy has compelled various criminal legislations to reconsider and move toward a penal policy that departs from the traditional one represented in custodial penalties, due to their negative effects which outweigh their reformative and rehabilitative impacts on the convicted person. Custodial sentences destroy the personality of the convict, and their negative consequences extend to his family members and society as a whole. The system of electronic monitoring, or the electronic bracelet, is one of the modern mechanisms that emerged as a result of the ideas of the Social Defense School in most criminal legislations, including Algerian criminal legislation. The latter recently adopted the application of the electronic monitoring system through Law 18-01, supplementing the Law on the Organization of Prisons and the Social Reintegration of Prisoners. This system constitutes the subject of our study.