1. THE PROBATION OFFICER AS AFTER-CARE CASE WORKER IN ENGLAND.
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Prins, Herschel A.
- Subjects
PROBATION officers ,PROBATION ,CORRECTIONAL personnel ,ALTERNATIVES to imprisonment ,JUSTICE administration ,CRIME ,CRIMINOLOGY - Abstract
This article attempts to consider the probation officer as an After-Case worker in England. An After-Case worker is in charge of persons released conditionally or unconditionally from a sentence of imprisonment, or from one or other form of institutional training. Probation work as such is by now a well recognized form of penal treatment, but the probation officer's duties in the field of After-Care have perhaps as yet, not obtained the recognition due to them. It is important that the value of After-Care Case-Work should be recognized by the administrative authorities responsible for the assessment of case-loads, i.e. in England, the Probation Committees that are responsible for administering the service on a local basis in the various Probation Areas, since one feels that there have been occasions when the inadequate recognition of the probation officer's functions and duties as an After-Care Agent has led to this aspect of his work sometimes being regarded as an after-thought. The history of After-Care in England can only be examined in relation to other developments in the penal system and is too complex a study to enter into here. It is only necessary at this point to emphasize that the rehabilitation of the discharged prisoner is a matter of much concern to the general public, as we have found it necessary to punish for infringements of our moral code as expressed in terms of the law.
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- 1959
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