PROBACIJOS PAREIGUNO INDIVIDUALUS INDELIS SIEKIANT PROBACIJOS TIKSLU: EMPIRINIO TYRIMO REZULTATAI
INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION OF PROBATION OFFICER IN SEEKING PROBATION GOALS: RESULTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

Summary/Abstract: Based on the results of the empirical research (probation officers’ questionnaire survey), the article examines how probation officers evaluate their individual work in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the probation. The article relies on the results of a survey of 129 Lithuanian probation service officers. The study revealed that most of the respondents (probation officers) assess their contribution to the probation goals as very relevant. For example, probation officers consider that they have a very significant or significant influence on such probation goals as probationers compliance with probation obligations (78.3%), probationers compliance with the laws (67.4%), participation of probationers in behavioral correction programs (71.3%), probationers compensation for victims of crime (67.4%). Respectively probation officers assess their contribution as less relevant to such goals and objectives as treatment for addiction to drugs and alcohol (respectively 52.7% and 55.1% positive assessments), reduction of the risk of repeated crimes (51.2%), repeated crime reduction (48%), finding accommodation (44,2%), education of probationers (38%), debt repayment (33,9%). It is noteworthy that the respondents appreciate the most relevant contribution of their own to the goals related to the legal obligations, whose supervision and control is a direct function and duty of probation officers, e. g.: compliance with the probation obligations (78.2% of positive assessments) of the impostors participation in behavioral change programs and their completion (71.3% and 69.5% respectively). The article provides insights and assumptions concerning the aspects of above mentioned results of probation officers survey.

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