Question

Please answer the following questions with a minimum of 150 words. As a parole officer, how would you handle a juvenile who will turn 18 years old in 2 months and who persistently violates his curfew, which is a condition of his parole program?

Answer 1

• As a parole or probation officer, if I had a juvenile who continually violated the terms of his or her probation and only had two months left; I would have to put the juvenile in a detention facility until his probation was up. I would do this because it is obvious the juvenile does not have any respect for the law and the conditions of his or her parole/probation officer and the conditions of parole/probation. Maybe by having the juvenile finish out the rest of his or her probation, he or she might realize that they cannot get away with breaking the law “so to speak”.
• I would not be more lenient on a juvenile because he or she is about to turn the age of 18. As a matter of fact I would violate the juvenile and let him or her sit until he or she receives a court hearing or for the two months that he or she has before transferring out of the juvenile justice system and affairs over to the adult courts.
• This in my opinion would be the last time the juvenile will have a chance to straighten their act up before they get into trouble as an adult. If they do get into trouble when they are an adult he or she should already know and understand that their history of criminal behavior may not be open to the public’s eye but, the judge will more than like know their criminal background all too well.
• No matter what one thinks, as a juvenile what they truly do not know is prosecutors, judges as well as defense attorney knows every angle of the criminal justice system and all who pass through it and if a juvenile is a repeated offender in the delinquent age trust me if they get into more trouble as an adult the courts can and will after trying to do all they can to reform him or her. The criminal justice system will now punish him or her to the fullest extent of being an adult.