‘Strengthening Probation, Building Confidence’: The task of re-designing probation

Probation and Re-Education

The Probation Officer

!t is they who have the final decision. The probation officer has a double duty, on the one hand to See that the Court's directions are carried out and on the other to l?ok after the interests of individuals. On the whole this divided Royalty causes no real difficulty. In most other fields?doctor and Patient, solicitor and client, social worker and "case"?where the relationship breaks down, one...

The Probation Officer's Needs

casework in the nineteen fifties has brought increasing recognition of the common basis which social workers in many different branches are using in their work with clients. Modern training has been aimed at defining and teaching these common elements and applying them through casework supervision to the particular settings in which the student is working?probation, family casework, almoning, c...

Federal Probation

Federal Probation (ISSN 0014-9128) is dedicated to informing its readers about current thought, research, and practice in corrections and criminal justice. The journal welcomes the contributions of persons who work with or study juvenile and adult offenders and invites authors to submit articles describing experience or significant findings regarding the prevention and control of delinquency an...

State Supervision of Probation