Probation Officer Deprivation

The purpose of the study that was conducted by Lewis and Garby was to do an assessment into the traumatic stress and burnout that were experienced by the probation officers who deal with the criminal offenders. In the past probation officers have been working with a lot of trauma and stress from dealing with criminal offenders. At some point in time, criminal offenders could be a threat to the families of these probation officers. The study comprised of adult probation officers who were drawn from five departments from three states in the United States. These states include Texas, California and Arizona. Officers constantly face the threats and victimization thus, the officers being assaulted or threatened personally. Most of them were found …show more content…
Data was collected by the researchers from three states which include Texas, Arizona and California. The total sample that was surveyed in this research was a total of 309 participants. Empirical data that were obtained shows that a significant proportion of the population was under probation in these three states and as such there was the need for an increase in the number of the probation officers. These 309 probation officers had sample survey instruments that they were supposed to complete, inclusive of Impacts of Events Scale Revised. Interview is also another strategy that was used in the collection of data. The researcher developed a customized questionnaire in which the population sample was questioned. This is a very effective data collection method as the researcher is in a position of ascertaining the feelings of the interviewee. In this case, this was strategic as it helped in the understanding of how the probation officers felt in the event that they are traumatized and stressed from the effects of the …show more content…
The majority of the deliberate caseload occasions (e.g., a vicious offense by a supervisee) and exploitations (e.g., officers being actually undermined or attacked) were connected with higher reports of "sympathy exhaustion" and wellbeing concerns, and large portions of them were connected with anxiety and burnout (see diagram). Officers who reported higher quantities of traumatic caseload occasions and exploitations additionally had higher scores in the zones of burnout, question, sexual issues, family issues, outrage, bended world-view, social/enthusiastic segregation, and feeling excessively dependable. Increments in traumatic anxiety were straightforwardly identified with length of probation vocation after the scientists represented impacts inferable from life