Criminal Justice Trends Paper

Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor

Team B

CJA 464

September 2, 2015

Harry Kirk

Case Study: Out-of-Town Brown and the Besieged Probation Supervisor

In this paper there has to be an analysis of the work done on a probation supervisor and agent by the name of Joan Casey the officer is known to be great worker with good background in the field that she works in but there has been recent issues for the department she supervise some of the recommendations that the officers in her department have come to the light of the media and other managers have taken notice what should be done will be discussed in this paper and some of the decisions made in this paper should explain Joan Casey thought process.

Response to the Reporter

The case is if Casey decides to talk with the reporter about officer’s recommendation, she should relate things to researched data. One useful piece of information is that about half of prison inmates are arrested and returned to prison soon after release from an institution (Beck, 1989). In this case, though the crime may sound horrific, the offender is low-risk; and moreover, he suffered emotional as well as physical abuse, sexual abuse, and that forced him to psychological disorder. As Prisons are meant for high-risk offenders, this offender may have so intermediate sanctions that may include fines, community corrections, home confinement, electronic monitoring, intensive probation supervision, and boot camps. These sanctions have better supervision than used in prisons. We know that first time offenders committing mid-level crimes and of low risk are eligible for intermediate sanction. This saves money without posing public threat.

As intermediate sanctions are applicable for only specific offenders, probation officers have to put offenders in appropriate programs suiting their needs and treatment. Social skills and employments skills can be improved by placing offenders in intermediate sanction....