Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists

Key skills

A typical day

• •Prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.
• •Gather information about offenders' backgrounds by talking to offenders, their families and friends, and other people who have relevant information.
• •Interview probationers and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
• •Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
• •Supervise people on community-based sentences, such as electronically monitored home detention, and provide field supervision of probationers by conducting curfew checks or visits to home, work, or school.

Fields of study

Any field