How can you find out why someone had an ankle monitor

[IcyPenguin101]

Someone staying with a neighbour has an electronic monitor on their ankle. I assume someone would only have an ankle monitor if they have gotten out of prison and that is their place of record of probation purposes. I’m not friendly enough with the neighbour to ask straight out who is the person but I assume a family member. I’m basically wondering if I have to be concerned. I’m assuming they’d only permit ankle monitoring for something low level?

As an aside, I’ve had neighbours who should have had ankle monitors.

My ex is out on bail for several counts of rape and sexual assault so, yeah. Go figure.

Around one in three men in the UK have a criminal record

That sounds extremely far-fetched. Does that include traffic violations?

I've had several younger friends with them. They are mainly used to stop young men going out at night and getting into fights. The last guy I know had one because he stopped two bouncers being complete pricks/pervs to the young women coming into a local pub...their word against his, he has previous from a few years back...tagged. Don't make assumptions. Most of the blokes I grew up with have done time and you could trust them with your baby.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c98db40f0b65b3de09ea1/criminal-histories-bulletin.pdf

‘Convicted’ would indicate a court appearance, so mainly not traffic violations.

By criminal rights activists I mean pressure groups who lobby for changes to the law that favour criminals. I don’t entirely disagree with some of their work, but we have a lot of effort that goes into worrying about the impact of the criminal justice system on criminals and comparatively little that looks at the impact on victims. Victims are often given lip service that may result in an apology if broken while criminals get enforceable rights that will cost organizations money if broken.

Nevertheless, the law of England and Wales does not stop OP, or any private citizen from investigating why someone has an ankle bracelet, nor from freely publishing that information (at least until a conviction is spent).

So, the law of England and Wales then. The law doesn’t particularly protect either criminals or victims, though there is more crossover between the two groups than you probably want to acknowledge.

Governments and the media have exploited victims and talked up victims rights which have certainly increased over the last 10 years but without much resource to enforce them. Much the same as the ‘criminal rights’ that you seem to think exist. There are some groups that lobby for support for people who have served their sentence (none that lobby for ‘criminals’ as such). Most are founded on the idea that better resettlement prevents future victims, rather than solely on rights for the individual. Guessing you’d agree that preventing future victims is worth pursuing?

There are also massive and public funded groups that lobby for victims. Every person sentenced in Crown Court pays a victim surcharge. By all means ask what Victim Support or the government are doing for victims, but linking that to your ‘right’ to know what a random person did in the past is meaningless. It’s not a zero sum game, help for one category of people doesn’t preclude help for another.

Why do you think my lack of support for privacy for criminals means I don't appreciate there is cross over between victims and criminals? I haven't said anything you could take that from.

We are straying from the OP's issue of finding out about the reason for an ankle monitor. And while I am interested in discussing the state of the criminal justice system and why and how it prioritises some people over others, it's really not appropriate for this thread and probably not a discussion that can be held well on a forum like this.