The court may release the convicted offenders on probation or may sentence to serve time in a prison or jail. The decision of the parole board is informed by the eligibility …show more content…
Probation and parole are used for external control in the collaborative response to offending, whereby the probation and parole officers work closely with offenders to ensure that the offenders abide by the conditions of their parole or probation. The parole and probation officers work in collaboration to prevent offending or repeat offending. As such, the probation and parole officers’ non-administrative responsibilities include participating in the efforts of offender rehabilitation programs as well as offending prevention …show more content…
Additionally, they work to make the meetings educational and non-threatening. They provide education to neighborhood associations, school boards, faith communities, the chamber of commerce, as well as other interested parties. The education involves the delinquency prevention measures and risk factors. As such, probation and parole officers use their influence with the clients to assist them develop respectful behaviors and attitudes.
Probation and parole officers are tasked with the role of responding to and preventing delinquency in the community as well as performing supervisory roles to parolees and probationer. In the case of sex offences, these officers work to prevent sex offences and responding to the offences. The probation and parole officers interact with each other to keep an eye on low-level