But as the technology matures, satellite tracking will inevitably be an important part of the penal system, experts say.
An expert penal consisted of 5 CM experts were invited to comment on the initial model.
Frances Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, which provided an expert witness in the case, said the ruling was an important first step in ensuring that only those who actually continued to pose a risk to the public remained on the register.
The Scottish justice secretary, Michael Matheson, announced on Tuesday that John Scott QC, a leading human rights lawyer and chair of the Scottish branch of the Howard League for Penal Reform, would now lead an expert panel to investigate the future use of stop and search, including considering a ban.
Created in 2008 as part of a reform effort to grapple with the country's growing narcotics problem, the centers, lawyers and drug experts say, have become de facto penal colonies where inmates are sent to factories and farms, fed substandard food and denied basic medical care.
But one security expert says this amounts only to "penal populism", and Guillermo Zepeda, who studies the Mexican justice system, notes that the agreement will do nothing to change the fact that the average tenure of a Mexican policeman in urban areas is less than two years and three months.
There, conscious that he was being graded on his performance under the CompStat system, he admitted he often sought to define crimes by their lowest possible classification — but within the procedures of the state penal law and the department's guidelines and legal experts.
Nearly 1,000 experts have signed a statement declaring that the "penal law cannot be a substitute for helping children and teenagers or for policies that promote integration" of minorities.
Swedish legal experts have said that the section of the Swedish penal code involved in the allegation refers to the third and least serious of three categories of rape, known as "less severe," commonly invoked when men in relationships use threats or mild degrees of force to have sex with partners against their will.
