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Probation: An Overview

individual meeting certain conditions. For instance, an individual on probation may have to regularly meet with a probation office...

Probation's Failures and Successes

In five pages this paper examines the U.S. corrections system in a consideration of its history, failures, and successes with stat...

Probation: Questioning the Effectiveness

is a finely tuned balancing act. Many think of the corrections process as being fairly straightforward: if someone commits a crime...

Probation and the Role of Officers

process of criminal punishment can take two forms: community treatment or institutional treatment. Institutional treatment obvious...

Reflections on Subjects Relevant to Pastoral Work

Working in the church is a challenge. The paper reflects on some pastoral subjects that are important to consider while on probati...

Probation versus Jail and Recidivism Rates

when they have only served probation rather than having been incarcerated. The study in England was also based on a population ma...

Incarceration, Probation, and Rates of Recidivism

is a more certain way to monitor the offenders and also serves to result in a higher rate of those who do not return to a life of ...

Parole and Probation Alternative Approaches

while on probation, to the extent that "the issue of recidivism among these offenders cannot be underestimated, since this has a d...

Repeat Offenders After Probation and or Parole

Analysis There are very few people in society today want to see bad men and women doing bad things in public --...

Ex Convicts and Voting in New Jersey

police arrest and charge more black people with crime. It seems that white people get away with crime, or that false allegations a...

Harris County, Texas' Criminal Justice System and Adult Probation

job. Counseling is available to those who need it. The office may make home visits to catch the probationer by surprise. Mandat...

U.S. System of Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Race

perspective is that OJ Simpson was tried by a jury of his peers. There was an Asian judge and a jury made up of minorities. The pr...

Discussion of Criminal Sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and the Mentally Ill

In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...

Parole and Probation in the Future

crimes. Allowing violent criminals to be released is ludicrous. Parole reform is necessary to ensure a safe society. While the law...

Problems of Probation Offices

Community Service" (Probation division, 2001). How It Works Adult services, as the name implies, "is responsible for supervising...

Creation of 3 Case Studies

though she says that she does not believe that she has the same problem. "Im not really sad. Things are just hard." When asked ...

Standard Probation and the Alternative of Intensive Supervision Programs

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how to reduce criminal recidivism through intensive supervision programs instead of standar...

Whites, Blacks, Mentally Ill, and Criminal Sentencing

are mentally ill. One of the questions that then arises from this data is, are the white mentally ill sentenced to incarceration ...

Youth Offenses, the Juvenile Justice System, and Probation Issues

rather noble institution and embraces the authority to encompass the most important duty imaginable which is to protect and reform...

Juvenile Probation Officer's Professional Development Plan

In five pages this paper discusses a 3 year period of juvenile probation officers' ongoing professional development. Two sources ...

Probation and Diversion Programs, Their Effectiveness

This essay/research paper pertains to diversion and probation programs, detailing problems and discussing ways in which their effe...

Parole, Probation And Pardons

live within a civilized society as well as reduce recidivism rates. II. "MEDICAL MODEL" APPROACH TO CRIMINALS All offender...

The Effect of Good Time on Parole

is common in some prison systems to grant two or three days of good time for each day the prison behaves himself or herself. For e...

Parole, Probation and Enforcing The Law

welfare sympathizers in an already-overwrought social work system. II. CONTROL MODEL AGENCY & SOCIAL SERVICE MODEL AGENCY ...

Alternative Punishments in the Justice System

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

Probation and Parole

the judicial institution of the federal government. This author further indicates how, "Most agencies in the United States are ope...

Literature Review of Probation and Policing Fields Discriminating Against Women

a considerable difference between the garment worker of the nineteenth century and the beat cop of the twenty-first century. Howe...

Case Study, Pre-sentence Investigation Process

and determine that was low ("Rational" 322). In other words, she applied rational guidelines to the process of deciding the contex...

North Carolin's Justice

of age or older at the time the juvenile allegedly committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult. If the al...

Effectiveness of Parole and Probation

be more detrimental than beneficial, much of the public connects it with a common sense approach to combating juvenile offenders. ...