Juvenile probation officers have three major roles, which are casework management, treatment and surveillance. These roles can cause conflict between the juvenile and the probationer officer depending on the situation. The author states “probation officers experience role conflict in attempting to fulfill both functions at the same time” (Latessa & Allen, 2003; Lawerence, 1984; pg.413). For example, when the probation officer has to act as a social worker and law enforcement next, may have the offender not able to trust them because they are switch up on them often. (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). Also the different types of offenders, will determine how the probation officer would respond in each role. First major role of probationer officers
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This is where the probation officer focuses more on their role as a caseworker or counselor (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). This is actually one of the most difficult tasks for them, because most juveniles come from bad families. For example bad families are families who have lost the parent-child relationship or all respect for their child just because they made a mistake. Also May parents in these dysfunctional families didn’t learn good communication or management skills to be able to talk to more manage their child’s behavior. I think enable to fix a child’s behavior it starts at home with the parents if the parents are dysfunctional and have life skills the child will mostly likely be the same. This is what makes it hard for the probation officer he or she has to play a counselor to the child to help them learn certain things to better them. The last function of a probation officer is surveillance. This function requires the probation office to monitor the juvenile closely (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). They monitor the juvenile closely to make sure they are following all of their probation conditions. This surveillance can be done in different way, such as making the juvenile come into the office, through telephone calls, and school visits or home visits. This function is also identical to the function of a police officer because probation officer have the ability to take a juvenile that is on probation into …show more content…
One example would be with a first time offender, the probation officer may be a little more lenient with this juvenile just because it is his or her first time in the system. They may check on them less but push more treatment on them to try and prevent them from committing more crimes. With someone whose second or third time being on probation, the officer may supervise them more intensely knowing his background, they may assign more home visits or office visits, and more treatment programs. With drug offenders the probation office more schedule more office visits, more random urine samples, and make more conditions for drug treatment programs. There are many advantages of probation including: it gives opportunity to reintegrate offender back into the community, furthering goals of justice an protecting the community form further delinquent behavior, ability to monitor probation conditions and providing services to help change offenders and meet probation objectives, retain young offenders in the community, with families, in public and alternative schools which avoids difficulties of reintegration and also it avoids high costs and negativity of a correctional facility (Lawrence & Hemmens,
This is where the probation officer focuses more on their role as a caseworker or counselor (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). This is actually one of the most difficult tasks for them, because most juveniles come from bad families. For example bad families are families who have lost the parent-child relationship or all respect for their child just because they made a mistake. Also May parents in these dysfunctional families didn’t learn good communication or management skills to be able to talk to more manage their child’s behavior. I think enable to fix a child’s behavior it starts at home with the parents if the parents are dysfunctional and have life skills the child will mostly likely be the same. This is what makes it hard for the probation officer he or she has to play a counselor to the child to help them learn certain things to better them. The last function of a probation officer is surveillance. This function requires the probation office to monitor the juvenile closely (Lawrence & Hemmens, 2008). They monitor the juvenile closely to make sure they are following all of their probation conditions. This surveillance can be done in different way, such as making the juvenile come into the office, through telephone calls, and school visits or home visits. This function is also identical to the function of a police officer because probation officer have the ability to take a juvenile that is on probation into …show more content…
One example would be with a first time offender, the probation officer may be a little more lenient with this juvenile just because it is his or her first time in the system. They may check on them less but push more treatment on them to try and prevent them from committing more crimes. With someone whose second or third time being on probation, the officer may supervise them more intensely knowing his background, they may assign more home visits or office visits, and more treatment programs. With drug offenders the probation office more schedule more office visits, more random urine samples, and make more conditions for drug treatment programs. There are many advantages of probation including: it gives opportunity to reintegrate offender back into the community, furthering goals of justice an protecting the community form further delinquent behavior, ability to monitor probation conditions and providing services to help change offenders and meet probation objectives, retain young offenders in the community, with families, in public and alternative schools which avoids difficulties of reintegration and also it avoids high costs and negativity of a correctional facility (Lawrence & Hemmens,