Understanding Probation and Parole
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Understand Probation and Parole
Similarities & Differences
April 1, 2013
Victor Mora
Community Corrections
April 1, 2013
Victor Mora
Community Corrections
If you don’t follow the Criminal Justice System closely and what they stand for it is easy to confuse many departments within our states. The media and many members of the public often commit this error when it comes to what Probation and Parole stand for and their purposes. I myself use to mistaken these two as being one, but thanks to the my major Criminal Justice and Criminology and the courses I have taken at Arizona State University, I have learned that these two types of supervisions are. Probation is for offenders sentenced under courts while on the other hand we have parole that is for offenders that are being put back into the community and are receiving a lesser sentencing by the courts. (Joan Petersilia and Susan Turner) This is just a small portion of what they truly are, after reading this essay you will be well informed and will understand the similarities and differences between Probation and Parole, along with the actual definitions according to reliable sources.
Probation is a legal, punitive, and merciful system, also includes a suspension of their sentence by the court. Since the a sentence wasn’t impose, the offender remains in the community until the length of his sentence has expired, unless while on probation the offender engages in any new conduct that would warrant for his arrest. (Lewis Diana) Treatment is part of probation, but it isn’t its main focus to probation officers are to obtain reports on the activities that their client are involved in. Basically this is a second chance to the offender, but it leaves everything in their hands to the kind of future they want to obtain. A probation officer will be assigned to a probationer, this officer will keep track of their client to make sure that they have been living a
Understand Probation and Parole
Similarities & Differences
April 1, 2013
Victor Mora
Community Corrections
April 1, 2013
Victor Mora
Community Corrections
If you don’t follow the Criminal Justice System closely and what they stand for it is easy to confuse many departments within our states. The media and many members of the public often commit this error when it comes to what Probation and Parole stand for and their purposes. I myself use to mistaken these two as being one, but thanks to the my major Criminal Justice and Criminology and the courses I have taken at Arizona State University, I have learned that these two types of supervisions are. Probation is for offenders sentenced under courts while on the other hand we have parole that is for offenders that are being put back into the community and are receiving a lesser sentencing by the courts. (Joan Petersilia and Susan Turner) This is just a small portion of what they truly are, after reading this essay you will be well informed and will understand the similarities and differences between Probation and Parole, along with the actual definitions according to reliable sources.
Probation is a legal, punitive, and merciful system, also includes a suspension of their sentence by the court. Since the a sentence wasn’t impose, the offender remains in the community until the length of his sentence has expired, unless while on probation the offender engages in any new conduct that would warrant for his arrest. (Lewis Diana) Treatment is part of probation, but it isn’t its main focus to probation officers are to obtain reports on the activities that their client are involved in. Basically this is a second chance to the offender, but it leaves everything in their hands to the kind of future they want to obtain. A probation officer will be assigned to a probationer, this officer will keep track of their client to make sure that they have been living a