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Terminating Probation

Terminating Probation VALERIE DOUGLAS * THE grounds on, which it is appropriate for a probation officer to initiate breach proceedings against a probationer are an area surrounded with con­ fusion and vagueness in Victoria and in other Australian States. The stipendiary probation and parole division is a comparatively new service in Victoria, and policy with respect to breach of probation has not yet been developed. It is left to individual probation officers to formulate their own policy, and wide divergences occur in. the treatment of probationers. Two probationers may violate the same condition' in the same way, and one be brought before the supervising court and the other not. It is not the differences in disposition which are queried in this article, but the absence of rationale as to Why the differen.ces. occur. It is suggested that far from being the highly individualistic and subjective matter it is in practice, it is possible to isolate some broad general directives which enable the probation officer to make a rational decision, as to whether grounds obtained in a given case for bringing the probationer before the supervising court. Th,ese directives are discussed below. 1. Legal Obligation Probation, in Victoria, is administered under the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486586800100205
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Abstract

VALERIE DOUGLAS * THE grounds on, which it is appropriate for a probation officer to initiate breach proceedings against a probationer are an area surrounded with con­ fusion and vagueness in Victoria and in other Australian States. The stipendiary probation and parole division is a comparatively new service in Victoria, and policy with respect to breach of probation has not yet been developed. It is left to individual probation officers to formulate their own policy, and wide divergences occur in. the treatment of probationers. Two probationers may violate the same condition' in the same way, and one be brought before the supervising court and the other not. It is not the differences in disposition which are queried in this article, but the absence of rationale as to Why the differen.ces. occur. It is suggested that far from being the highly individualistic and subjective matter it is in practice, it is possible to isolate some broad general directives which enable the probation officer to make a rational decision, as to whether grounds obtained in a given case for bringing the probationer before the supervising court. Th,ese directives are discussed below. 1. Legal Obligation Probation, in Victoria, is administered under the

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1968

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