The pilot schemes will allow courts and children's panels to order tagging for under-16s responsible for repeated antisocial behaviour and will be mainly used as an alternative to secure accommodation.
Pilots will run later this year in Dundee, the Highlands, East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Moray and West Dunbartonshire.
Candidates for the pilots will be people who are likely to abscond or hurt themselves or others. The Scottish Executive does not envisage the pilots tagging more than 200 young people.
Their success will be measured on how tagging affects reoffending and the protection it offers vulnerable young people.
Alex Hamilton, Fairbridge in Scotland's communication and policy officer, said: "It seems reactive and doesn't do anything to address the underlying cause."
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