Test 8: Probation Officers Influence Clients by Giving Them Support and Resources

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Published: December 12, 2019

What is the job of a probation officer? 

Some might say their role is to monitor former inmates and send them back to prison when they have done something wrong.

 “Some people who get out of prison look at the probation system as adversarial, like someone who’s going to be checking up on you and trying to get you in trouble and trying to get you sent back to prison, and that’s not what we do,” Higgins said.

Higgins has worked as a federal probation officer for 20 years after discovering her interest for the criminal justice system through a job as a secretary at a psychologist’s office in college.