State Supervision of Probation

State Supervision of Probation

A Theory of Probation Supervision

Notes Fourth Amendment Limitations on Probation and Parole Supervision

The assertion of fourth amendment rights by a probationer' or parolee2 suspected of renewed criminal activity creates a potential confrontation between a fundamental constitutional guarantee3 and society's legitimate interest in correctional programs which rehabilitate released offenders and prevent them from lapsing back into crime.4 Because courts refuse to apply the exclusionary rule5 to pro...

Effect of psychopathy, abuse, and ethnicity on juvenile probation officers' decision-making and supervision strategies.

Probation officers exercise substantial discretion in their daily work with troubled and troubling juvenile offenders. In this experiment, we examine the effect of psychopathic features, child abuse, and ethnicity on 204 officers' expectancies of, recommendations for, and approach to supervising, juvenile offenders. The results indicate that officers (a) have decision-making and supervision app...

The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

After four decades of steady growth, U.S. states' prison populations finally appear to be declining, driven by a range of sentencing and policy reforms. One of the most popular reform suggestions is to expand probation supervision in lieu of incarceration. However, the classic socio-legal literature suggests that expansions of probation instead widen the net of penal control and lead to higher ...