Juvenile Probation Paper

The purpose of probation is to reduce the chances of an offender recommitting a criminal act that will lead them back into the jail system. Probation gives an offender the opportunity to be released back into society under the supervision of a qualified person or agency for a certain period of time. There are two distinctive types of probation: juvenile and adult. Juvenile probation was put in place to give under age offenders the chance to be rehabilitated for committing a crime and not having the offense recorded on their permanent record. Juvenile probation serves as the guardian of juveniles who might not be able to fend for themselves (Alarid, 2015). Adult probation is for offenders that are over the age of eighteen (sometimes juveniles …show more content…
As for the case study on page forty, I feel that the offender in case study A should be placed upon probation with mandatory drug testing. This offender is a typical teenager that is going to explore the outside world and what it has to offer. I’m not condoning the offender’s actions, but he has not shown any prior wrongdoings until now. Sometimes all a person needs is a little help and guidance to make aware of their actions. I definitely don’t believe Smith is part of any drug ring when he was only found with two ecstasy pills and no other drug related incidents. That assumption should not even be entertained at this time because there is not enough nor will there be enough evidence to prove that. As for the information of being two months behind on child support, well this happens when you are briefly laid off like the case states. How do we know Smith wasn’t trying to save money to pay for the back child support with his construction job? That piece of information should not be relevant in this case. I don’t think is shows anything too negative about his