Probation Officer Pros And Cons

Understanding a career field in a lecture environment can be limited, yet when you add the opportunity to engage in active learning environment it can be more realistic. “Active learning requires students to be connected and committed to their own education.” (Gordon, Barnes, & Martin, 2009, p. 228) Participating in a role-playing learning activity gives a glimpse of the reality of the role of a probation officer and a probationer. I was able to participate in this active learning exercise for four weeks; this exercise can develop an interest in the probation officer career field and help formulate questions a student would have for that field representative. After my own experience as a probation officer I can understand how a probation officer

(Alarid, 2017, p. 293) Besides managing/supervising probationers and parolees, other concerns are safety on the job and caseloads. We will review three areas of deficiencies being caseloads, time spent managing probationers and safety within the probation officer career field, and the pros and cons with a possible solution for each.

COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS SUMMARY EXPERIENCE PAPER 3

Community Corrections Summary Experience Paper The community corrections experience begins, first two weeks as a probation officer and then two weeks as a probationer. As for my experience being the probationer was easiest. Probationer arrives late for first meeting, no problem. Probationer has no job, no problem. Probationer doesn’t want to stop drinking, let’s work on that. Probationer hasn’t attend last three meetings for anger management, let’s see if we can find something that fits your schedule. I know as the probationer in my experience my probation officer made it easy for me, she easily changed the subject if I started acting peculiar, when I was unable to do

If the office supports psychological programs it helps creating a supportive workplace. I consider a supportive and competent office to be essential in managing the other two issues of caseloads and