01:202:201 Lecture 14: Lecture 14 critical probation failures and promising innovations
30 Oct 2014
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Probation department was effective in public safety or management terms. In 1967 the presidents commission on law enforcement and. Administration of justice produced the task force report on. During the evaluation, this report expressed numerous and significant criticism of probation: probation services have been characteristically poorly staffed and often poorly administered. Despite that, the success of those placed on probation, as measured by not having probation revoked, has been surprisingly high: probation is badly undermanned in general by staff who are too often under-trained and almost always poorly paid. Probation agencies only occasionally mount the type of imaginative programs that fulfill their potential for rehabilitation: more manpower is needed for probation services than is now available, throughout the country, probation services to misdemeanants are sparse and spotty. Even there, caseloads are too high to permit adequate pre-sentence investigations and meaningful supervision of probationers. Domestic violence cases: probation departments have undertaken a number of strategies to reduce domestic violence.
