The Probation Officer: Field Work As A Probation Officer

Field Work: Probation Officer The topic, which I chose, is probation officer. A probation officer supervises offenders who are out of jail or sentenced to community service. It related to juvenile justice in many ways. For starters when an adolescent is sentenced, the probation officer is the first to be with the kid. Second, the probation officer is also there to look out for the kid and tell them what is right and wrong. Thirdly, a probation officer is there to keep check on the adolescent and help them in whatever way they can. Their goal is to help rehabilitate the offenders. Probation Officers work with social services, law enforcement and other department with education, training, counseling, housing and job placement. The job of the

Missing reports in not tolerated. The rewards for her are that she enjoys what she does. Her day-to-day work consists of writing reports for the court and seeing minors and their parents. Some days she has no appointments so therefore she is either dictating or typing her court reports. Her days usually starts at 8 am and end in various times depending on her work day. Though she usually gets home around 3 pm if all is good at the office. The population of her clients ranges from all walks of life; rich, poor, homeless, African America, Asian, Caucasian, Mexican and Dominican. There have been many cases over the years that have made her “heart” break. There is so many minors that you want nothing more than to help them be successful in life, unfortunately she only meets the minor only one time and then often she doesn’t know what happens to them. Since she doesn’t work in the areas, which she lives, it is easier for her to leave work at the office. She has had numerous cases that she has brought home but none that she has directly affected her personal life.

She got into being a PO because of her father. Her started his career in probation in 1965, so he influenced her. She did an internship while in college for the San Luis Obispo Probation Department and really enjoyed working with teens. She attended Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo and her major was sociology. When she did

The investigators only meet with them once and the surveillance meet with them several times and they are the ones that usually meet with to talk about how things are going. I recommend that if your going to be a PO knowing Spanish is very important, because in California sooner or later Spanish will become the second language. Also the PO should treat each delinquent the same manor. Because if a delinquent find out that the PO treats another delinquent differently they might start to slash out and cause trouble. That will only affect the delinquent and be given a harsher punishment. My over statement for this project is that I had fun learning everything and then being able to input what we learned in