PROBATION AND PAROLE
Name Institution affiliation Date of submission Question one Probation officers should approach the offenders through the assessment and classification process. The aim of classification and assessment is for the provision of rational means to estimate the risk of the offender in violating probation. The approach is significant in the contribution of the decision-making process, and it limits the time is taken, realities of the caseload size and assistant options make such assessment more of paperwork which improves the offender. Probation officers should be warm, helpful, and concerned with their probationers. The decision gets seen in the case of Walking, who had retained an attorney in his case. The case proceeded in the absence of the attorney without counsel. However, the court ruled that the probationer had the right for counsel before hearing of the case. The legal decision that affects parole it also affects probation (Spencer et al., 2019). It gets demonstrated on a probation violation in Gagnon that was used by Morrissey that concerns the abuse of parole as a precedent. The decision gets based on the constitution that gets contained in Eight Amendments. The newly adapted fourteenth amendment for the protection of slaves States that no nation shall enforce the law that abridges a person’s privilege, nor shall any government deprive a person’s liberty or property without due process of the law. Classification of the casework can get based on the history of mental illness, quantitively weight of the case and the workloads. The masses get assigned to individual case based on the supervision level that gets indicated by each case. The need or risk classification there is a balance of workloads by comparative of the ongoing probation statistics. The following are the weights followed by the officers; level one that had the most restrictive supervision. Level two that get considered as the heightened level of the offender’s control. Level three of the moderate of monitoring and level four that het classified as the minimum with one workload point. Question two Warmth and acceptance that the probation officer may offer while enforcing the law is impossible. It gets demonstrated in the case of Minnesota v. Murphy in 1984, where the supreme court recognized that the probation officer has no right to ask self-incrimination questions. The reason to impose this right is that the probationer will answer the problem in the wrong way affecting the decision of the court. In the real essence, the probation officer can manage the two roles, considering the probationer Fifth Amendment right. The probation officer may balance the two parts main through abiding the law of the land. Through studying the rights of the probationer and strict adherence to the rule of law, the two roles can get managed. Question three As the head of the probation department, I will make the probation officers conducting field visits not to wear casual attires that identify them. The reason is that the parole officer should create a rapport with the client and his or her family. The profession of the probation officer is to gather the available information from the field; therefore, there is a need to use a more effective way to collect the data. Creating a rapport with the family, the officer can eventually obtain information on the problem in question. Unmarked vehicles should get used in probation services so that probation officers can build confidentiality on their work in the field. The probation officer should make the security agencies to get familiarized with the officers so that they protect them from the community misconducts. Critical thinking Question one For employment rates to increase and quality of job increase. There should be a program orientation that will give a clear understanding of the client in a formal probation process. Parolees should get introduced to the human resource division of the probational department. The schedule of the program should allow the client to participate in season orientation before the plan of the case gets formulated. The probationer should have an opportunity with a parole officer to discuss the type of concern and needs that can be addressed by the programs within the department. Improve the quality of the job, and there should be a planned interview that gets based on casework skills through conduction interview and only patient, and skilled paroles will overcome the hostility in working relationship. The main objectives of undertaking the interview include the establishment of a casework relationship with the probation. Secondly, it is to give security in parole participation during problem analysis. Thirdly, is to leave positive assurance to the parolee to focus on future progress. To improve the job, the parole officers should get located throughout the state so that they can cover a specific area. Notably, the allocation will help parole participation in goal and problem discussion. The county probation agencies may offer services through decentralization and neighbourhood centres that parallel policing efforts of the community. Where there is a high concentration of offenders’ operation, satellite officers should work 24/7 under supervision. Offenders on probation should get directed to the responsible officer according to the area of residence. Through this, travelling time get limited hence making the parole officer get familiarized with social and law enforcement in the area. Question two To reduce employee turnover and to increase the morale of the parolee, the following strategic plan should get applied. The first is to hire the right people to specific fields of profession. It gets done by asking employees behavioural questions and also inform the parolee’s working culture. The salary range of the parolee should get based on the job in the local area. The officers should get a financial assistant that will help them in the provision of food and housing. Through assessment of the caseload, the officers should have a flexible work schedule. A flexible schedule can get obtained through the offenders assigned specific caseload according to the characteristic of the case. The initial interview should explain the rules of the parole. The officer should have the ability to help the client on questions concerning training, education, employment and the place of residence. The parole officer should get informed of the location of residence of the client. The parole should also avoid unlawful reports and behaviour when enforcement of the law. Question three in reduce budget expenditure, a stress reduction program should get created to prevent a relieve stress from the officers so that they can improve performance, save money and enhance officer’s security. They should provide adequate funding. As the staff conduct interview, they should select dedicated and talented staff. Through this, a well-equipped program gets developed. The advantage of hiring parole is that they do not need training. Assessment of the program should get improved so that the design and evaluation should get built. Through this, there is a baseline measure that gets calculated, reducing stress in the officers. The county probation should have its officers allocated in different parts of the state so that they save time in travelling and save money. References Hanser, R. D. (2018). Essentials of Community Corrections. SAGE Publications. Spencer, M., Anderson, J. A., & Myers, D. L. (2019). 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