¶ … Surveillance as casework: supervising domestic violence defendants with GPS technology deals with academic discussion over surveillance and the tendency to focus on its impact, spread, and ubiquity on society. Although such discussion can prove useful, there is also a need to discuss surveillance and how it is organized and implemented via practices rooted within justice system-based casework. The article draws from a GPS technology centered multi-study to demonstrate how surveillance is used to handle certain 'problem populations' (domestic violence defendants) as they implement varied rules for surveillance. Specifically, the study discovers that an agency's surveillance style indicates which direction the agency takes. This can be toward offering assistance and treatment, risk management and crime control, or observing due process. The part casework plays in surveillance is 1 also examined as well as the surveillance of populations and environments via data-banking technologies. The pretrial period is an important period to track and keep an eye on domestic violence defendants. The use of technology today has brought new ways to achieve such surveillance without having to exhaust too many resources. This kind of information can prove helpful during trial and often suggests a need to improve this kind of surveillance...

Furthermore, it is important to note the wealth of information available on police practices and the idea that surveillance has advanced and grown in recent times.
Probation is another problem that has been handled somewhat more successfully in recent times thanks to the use of GPS devices. People on probation or house arrest may be given the option of wearing a GPS device to track their movements. This is an example where surveillance technology can be applied within the criminal justice system to monitor a particular issue that is prevalent, that being people on probation and the need to monitor them.

The second article titled Police as Alert Responders? Lessons Learned about Perceived Roles and Responses from Pretrial GPS Supervision of Domestic Violence Defendants also deals with the subject of surveillance and domestic violence defendants. The first thing the article focuses on is the substantial amount of research available examining victim cooperation, police practices, and behavioral responses when police answer to DV/IPV (domestic violence/intimate partner) incidents. It covers the use of technology during a critical phase of after arrest and before court disposition or what is known as the pretrial period. GPS pretrial supervision has…