federal and state prisons. Given the unprecedented rise of individuals now involved with the American criminal justice system and the soaring rates or recidivism‚ there is a great need for systemic changes to address the issues confronting the ex-offender populations in this country. RESEARCH PROPOSAL TOPIC: "WHY IS THERE SUCH A HIGH RATE OF RECIDIVISM AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS? TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. PROBLEM STATEMENT III. PURPOSE OF STUDY IV. RESEARCH QUESTIONS V. LIMITATIONS
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I have returned home to finish out my probation. I am required to check in with my probation officer‚ Mr. Edwards‚ everyday so he can drug test me and keep tabs on my now extremely boring life. The other day I was down town when I ran into Tina. She ran up and hugged me‚ I tensed up and didn’t hug her back because I was extremely uncomfortable and still wasn’t too fond of her. She told me she was very happy to see I was free of that hell hole and apologized for helping Kyle put me there. Supposedly
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Juvenile Probation Tonya DeLana Chambers Argosy University Juvenile Corrections Professor Tunisia Staten May 11. 2015 Juvenile Probation My local juvenile probation department has taken care of a number of different cases. Everything from alcohol offenses to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. It has taken care of cases involving truancy‚ vandalism‚ possession of marijuana‚ burglary‚ also runaways‚ possession of a weapon‚ and resisting an officer without violence to name just a few. There are offenses
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Roles of a Juvenile Probation Officer Professor Janette Nichols Juvenile Justice Axia College (University of Phoenix) May 22‚ 2008 Marla Ognyanov Roles of a Juvenile Probation Officer Page 2 The Juvenile Court process is a very complex and often misunderstood system. This information is presented from the rules of Houston County‚ (Dothan‚ Alabama)‚ and provides the role and responsibilities of the Office of Juvenile Probation. According
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disadvantages of probation and parole What is probation? Probation is a court order sentencing that consist of the defendant to either serve or complete the remaining sentence of imprisonment in a supervised community. The defendant that’s assigned to completing a probation sentence will be under supervision of an officer of the court; which are referred to as a Probation Officer. Probation is one of the most common criminal sentencing processes in the United States. A probation sentence generally
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I interviewed Joe Neal‚ Deputy Probation Officer III‚ Mendocino County Adult Probation. I learned a lot about the Probation Officer’s job and Joe during my time interviewing him. Joe started his law enforcement career at a young age. He did not go into much detail about his career start‚ but did tell me that he eventually ended up being a Juvenile Court Judge. He retired then went to work at the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department. Due to the stress and shift work there he decided he would
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Annotated Bibliography Fulton‚ Betsy‚ Amy Stichman‚ Lawrence Travis‚ and Edward Latessa. "Moderating Probation and Parole Officer Attitudes to Achieve Desired Outcomes." Prison Journal 77.3 (1997): 295-313. CECybrary. ProQuest Database. Allentown Business School‚ Center Valley‚ PA. 7 July 2004 . This study was an assessment of the role preferences of probation and parole officers and the conflict between control and treatment. It was determined that organizational philosophy is a determinate on
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Probation Community Correction CRJ 331 2012 My site visit to theProbation Office was interesting I’ve never been in the building before and I didn’t know what I was going to expect going on in their or what went on in their. When I had arrived upstairs Glenn had showed me they way around the probation office first he brought us into his office and basically told us what we need to know about probation such as probation officers have duties‚ such as working within the corrections system and
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expectations for probation and parole are often made scapegoats? Americans want greater protection from crime while insisting that efforts to afford this protection do not jeopardize treasured constitutional rights. We want a system that deters would be miscreants an incapacitates those not deterred without imposing significant tax dollars . 3.How does the abolition of parole release impact on probation? the abolishing of parole may increase the number of people on probation‚ for example Virgina
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Abstract: This study looks at the relation between recidivism and the labeling theory. The study examines what the ideas of the labeling theory are and how they relate to the modern justice system. Prison populations have skyrocketed since the beginning of the 1980s. This paper analyzes how this number has grown along with how labeling theory identifies how the community operates along with individuals. The research collected the effect the current society’s labels are on the first time offenders
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