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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Probation and Parole

State probation. The seriousness of a juveniles charge(s) and/or the number of charges determines what type of probation a juvenil...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Criminal Justice and Probation

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the criminal justice system in an analysis of probation in terms of history, how it evolved,...

Comparative Analysis of Parole and Probation in the UK and US

This paper consists of ten pages and presents a comparative analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom as it relates to ...

Parole and Probation Comparisons

Aspects of parole and probation are considered in a comparison consisting of five pages of their differences, similarities, and ot...

Probation Officer Effectiveness

In two pages this paper describes the characteristics necessary to achieve probation officer effectiveness. There is no bibliogra...

Legal Issues Associated with Probation or Parole Revocation

In eight pages this paper discusses parole and probation revocation issues from a legal and judicial standpoint. Six sources are ...

Risks and Benefits of Intensive Supervision Programs

In twenty pages this paper examines standard probation programs and presents intensive supervision programs as a preferable option...

Revolving Door Effect of the American Penal System and Recidivism

In fourteen pages this paper discuses the problems of recidivism in the U.S. system of correction with various models for sentenci...

Juvenile Corrections and Probation

in group settings, these community-based probation programs ensure public protection in ways not possible using standard casework ...