Evaluating the Results of Probation

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...

State Supervision of Probation

Evaluating of the results of long fusion surgery in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis

Background: Degenerative scoliosis most commonly affects the lumbar spine in the elderly, resulting in facet and disc degeneration, leading to increased pain and progressive deformity. Due to the importance of the results of long fusion and the rate of coronary and sagittal correction of imbalance in patients with degenerative scoliosis, the present study was performed to evaluate the results o...

Probation linked supervised disulfiram in the treatment of habitual drunken offenders: results of a pilot study.

Sixteen habitual drunken offenders agreed to take disulfiram in liquid form under supervision as a condition of a probation order. They knew that failure to take medication, as with failure to observe any other condition of probation, could result in their being returned to court. Three defaulted but only two of the remainder committed further offences. Nine were entirely successful. At the end...