PREHEARING JUVENILE REPORT - PROBATION OFFICERS' CONCEPTIONS (FROM PROBATION AND PAROLE - SELECTED READINGS, 1970, JOHN WILEY & SONS - SEE NCJ-03284)

• NCJ Number: 3448
• Journal: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Volume: 4 Issue: 3 Dated: (JULY 1967) Pages: 212-217
• Author(s): S Z GROSS
• Date Published: 1967
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: John Wiley and Sons
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

SURVEY ON THE VALUE OF THE VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE REPORT IN TERMS OF USEFULNESS FOR APPROPRIATE OR ACCURATE RECOMMENDATION OF DISPOSITION.

Abstract

SEVENTY MINNESOTA PROBATION OFFICERS WHO DEAL WITH YOUNG OFFENDERS RANKED SECTIONS ON THEIR OWN PERCEPTION OF RELATIVE IMPORTANCE, AND FOR HOW THEY ANTICIPATED THE COURT WOULD VIEW THEM. THE LARGEST GAP BETWEEN THE OFFICERS' EVALUATION AND THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THE COURT'S PERSPECTIVE WAS ON PRESENT OFFENSE DATA. THEY THOUGHT THAT THE COURT WOULD CONSIDER THIS PART THE MOST IMPORTANT, WHILE THEY RANKED IT FOURTH.