Probation provides benefits by rehabilitating offenders and reintegrating them into the community. It reduces overcrowding in prisons while giving first-time, light offenders a second chance through supervision and reform requirements set by courts. Probation is a court function where judges determine guilt and decide probation applications. If granted, probation supervision becomes an administrative process where probation officers ensure requirements are followed while aiming to correct and rehabilitate offenders for the benefit of them, their victims, and society.
Probation provides benefits by rehabilitating offenders and reintegrating them into the community. It reduces overcrowding in prisons while giving first-time, light offenders a second chance through supervision and reform requirements set by courts. Probation is a court function where judges determine guilt and decide probation applications. If granted, probation supervision becomes an administrative process where probation officers ensure requirements are followed while aiming to correct and rehabilitate offenders for the benefit of them, their victims, and society.
Probation provides benefits by rehabilitating offenders and reintegrating them into the community. It reduces overcrowding in prisons while giving first-time, light offenders a second chance through supervision and reform requirements set by courts. Probation is a court function where judges determine guilt and decide probation applications. If granted, probation supervision becomes an administrative process where probation officers ensure requirements are followed while aiming to correct and rehabilitate offenders for the benefit of them, their victims, and society.
The Benefits that may obtained from Probation To bring about the rehabilitation of the
are the following: probationer and his reintegration into the
community. It reduces the burden on the police forces and institutions of feeding and guarding detainees. At this juncture, it is to be emphasized that in spite It gives the first and light offenders a second of the fact that the Parole and Probation chance in life and provides an opportunity Administration (PPA) is an executive agency, for the reformation of a penitent offender. control of the court over the probationer is not lost. It makes the offender productive or The probationer and his probation program taxpayers instead of tax-eaters. shall be under the control of the court placed It restores to successful probationers his him on probation subject to actual civil rights. supervision and visitation by a probation It has been proven effective in developing officers. countries that have adopted it. It is advocated by the United Nations in its various congresses in crime prevention and Element of Probation treatment of offenders. A post sentence investigation report will Concept of Probation serve as the informational for the court’s decision to grant or deny probation Probation implies that during the period of time The conditional suspension of execution fixed by the court , the defendant is provided with sentence by the court individualized community based treatment Condition of probation imposed by the court including conditions he is required by the court to to protect public safety and to faster the fulfill his correction and rehabilitation which might rehabilitation and reformation of the be less probable if he were to serve a prison probationer. sentence and for this purpose, he is placed under the Supervision, guidance and assistance of the actual supervision and visitation of a probation offender by a probation officer officer. If the defendant ( client/probationer ) violates any of the conditions of his probation, the court may Benefits of Probation revoked his probation and order him to serve the sentence originally imposed. 1. It protect society From the excessive cost of detention PROBATION IS A COURT FUNCTIONS Form the high rate of recidivism of detained offender First , determine his guilt – the court would 2. It protect the victim convict sentence said offender It provide restitution Second , when the court determines whether or It preserves justice not to grant probation upon application of the 3. It protect the family offender. It does not deprive the wife and children of PROBATION IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE husband and father PROCESS It maintains the unity of a home 4. It assist government Once the court has granted probation to an offender It reduces the population of prisons and jail and has duly imposed the terms and condition of the It lessens the clogging of court’ probation, the probation officer has the bounded It lightens the load of prosecutors duty to see to it that the probationer observes all 5. It helps the offender terms and conditions imposed by the court. It maintain his earing power Probation supervision is then a primarily an It provides rehabilitation in the community administrative process. It restores his dignity The primary purpose of probation supervision 6. It justifies the philosophy of men are: That life is sacred That man deserve a second chance To carry out the conditions set forth in the That an individual can change probation order; That society has the moral obligation to lift To ascertain whether the probationer is the fallen following said conditions