Set against an environment of diverse reforms across the domestic criminal justice system, including new oversight arrangements, the current article considers how probation in Ireland has almost entirely escaped notice. A case for probation oversight is made on the basis of its caseload size but also a decade of unaccounted use of electronic monitoring (EM). Global EM use highlights questions about domestic probation standards, research and planning. Shortcomings within the legislative consultation process around the tool’s role, the lack of any evaluation of EM suppliers and increasing focus on data management to date also bolster a case for oversight of Irish probation. A principal issue within this set of challenges for probation is how EM might adjust traditional agency values. Overall, the contention is made that the assumed exceptionalism of Republic of Ireland’s criminal justice system, that which acts as a buffer to change, may no longer be valid.

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电子监控和监控缓刑：爱尔兰案例

在国内刑事司法系统进行各种改革的环境下，包括新的监督安排，本文考虑了爱尔兰的缓刑几乎完全没有引起注意。缓刑监督的理由是基于其案件量的大小，以及十年未考虑使用电子监控 (EM) 的情况。全球 EM 使用突出了有关国内缓刑标准、研究和规划的问题。围绕该工具作用的立法协商过程中存在的缺陷、缺乏对 EM 供应商的任何评估以及迄今为止对数据管理的日益关注也支持了对爱尔兰缓刑进行监督的理由。这一系列缓刑挑战中的一个主要问题是 EM 如何调整传统机构的价值观。全面的，