Probation Paper

My Paper

Over the past three years and a semester that I have been learning about criminal justice the state of probation has been brought to my attention as a sanction for offenders that is in desperate need of repair. Probation is currently an overwhelmed sanction for offenders, that does not have enough resources to fund the appropriate amount of probation officers. Because of the lack of adequate funds and appropriate caseloads I believe the state of probation is currently in a bad place.

While agencies and corrections departments have been working on creating the best form of probation that they can the mission statements that they come up with and plans for implementation are either flawed because their mission statement looks at what they can do, which is not enough, or what they want to do, which with their current ability they cannot do. The mission of probation should be to help prior offenders reintegrate into the community and reduce recidivism, while addressing different needs that they have, and keep

First, a prior offender who wants to be habilitated/rehabilitated, second there has to be a positive probation officer who works to try and help the probationer to the best of his or her abilities, and third, the community has to be involved in helping the probationer to reintegrate. The community has to show concern for corrections and assure that proper resources are being provided to probationers. Each of these three components are very important to the probation being effective and without any one of these three parts the likelihood of probation being successful is very low. Justice reinvestment is currently not focused on as much as it should be. If there was more focus on justice reinvestment, like there should be, we could target offenders’ needs and the areas that are lacking in habilitation/rehabilitation to assist prior offenders in habilitation or