Home Detention
Definition
A form of custody or supervision served at a person's residence rather than in a correctional facility, usually monitored electronically.
Related terms
- Curfew Order
- A court or supervisory requirement that a person remain at a specified address during set hours, commonly enforced with RF monitoring.
- Electronic Monitoring
- The use of radio-frequency ankle tags or GPS tracking devices to enforce curfews or geographic exclusion zones as a condition of bail,...
- GPS Monitoring
- A monitoring method that reports a person's continuous or near-continuous location and can enforce exclusion and inclusion zones anywhere, not only at...
- Net Widening
- The expansion of formal state control that occurs when a diversionary or community-based measure draws in minor cases that would otherwise have...
- Radio-Frequency (RF) Monitoring
- A monitoring method that confirms only whether a person is within a fixed radius of a home base unit, used mainly to...