Probation Officers Working with Men

                                                   We Live in a Man's World!

      One of the most isgnificant settings from the criminal justice system is the hegemonic masculine culture that suggests criminal justice is a man's world. The honorable stance or helping others, commander of stressful situations, and the self-esteem boosters when a male probation officer saves the day. The cirmial justice system used to be a man's world, and society looks uo to those who rish thier lives for the greater good. Immagine what it would take for a women to enter this world and not be sexualied and marginalized for not upholding the same exspectations society has for men. There is a journal piece that I thought ws interesting about the issues concerning the significant gap between rhetoic and practice. We discuss how there are changes in the system of less masculine expectations and roles, but the social expectations still exist for men and women now live up to the same expectations individually. Criminal Justice work especially any law enforcement agency will be the most scutinized and objectified in all social settings.

Probations has an unusual perspective of the criminal justice system. The rhetoric of working with treatment providers, and law enforcement agencies gives a different vioce to the criminal justice system as it used every angle of the complex system in one office. This goes withourt saying, probation officers not only have to investigate and form plans for the offenders, but need to understand their gender identiy to formulate the issues of addressing what causes criminal behavior. Masculinity and feminity identities are real issue that need to be put into practice as to why people commit crimes. Working with the external stakeholders such as treatment providers identifying the issues that cause the criminal behaviors can take the rhetoric of what we speak about helping these people and put it into practice. the challenge is the knowledge to learn how to obtain a connection with communication with offenders causes issues do to the stigmatization and recidavism of crime. The lack of resources such as housing and support to stabalize the environments for offenders seems to be only accomplished when imprisoned. Prison is not an enviornment where probation officers can effectively practice restortive tactics to help offender understand their identities and where the root of issues may be caused.

I say we live in a man's world because the act of challenging an offenders identies cause a disruption in the communication of working with offenders. Respect is the greatest damaged misconception for offenders especially gang members who distinguish what the different bewteen how we obtain the issue and what works to resolve this issue. Probations has to use all tools and resources to work with individual who may or may not need help with how their social behaviors causes criminal activity. Punishment is a short term correction, not long but treatment is a lifelong requirement for offenders to push thorugh social exspectations of oppression and recidavism to be back into a legal society. Also, this is a battle for the life of a probation officer do to the nature of work that goes into making the community saferr and helping offenders from harming themselves.

                                 

SCOURFIELD, J. (1998). Probation Officers Working with Men. The British Journal of Social Work,28(4), 581-599. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/23714890