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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1962
Student Probation Officers' Duties Range From Legwork to Guidance
By Linda Machin
(Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles on KU law students who serve as probation officers for juveniles.)
Fifteen KU law students have accepted the responsibilities of being juvenile probation officers.
These students operate in cooperation with juvenile courts in Ottawa and Kansas City, and in Lawrence in cooperation with the Douglas County juvenile court.
Perhaps by following one KU law student through his duties as probation officer during a typical case, a better understanding of those duties can be obtained.
SINCE INFORMATION concerning juvenile cases is confidential and can be divulged only upon order of juvenile court, certain names and places have been changed or omitted. The case is authentic, and concerned a grocery store burglary committed by two juveniles.
The student probation officer said his first contact with the case occurred when the fathers of the two boys were brought in and questioned. After he was assigned to the boys, the officer's first job was to investigate the case before the judge passed sentence. He investigated the background of the boys—their families, living conditions, friends, education and recreational activities.
"FIRST, I TALKED to the proprietor of the grocery store that the boys burglarized," the law student said.
He next questioned the principal and guidance counselor of the school they attended, detectives at the police department who knew them, their parents and the boys themselves.
in addition, he checked statistical information at the welfare department and also the church affiliations of the boys.
"The burglary," said the probation officer, "was the first offense committed by the boys that we had on record. However, there were rumors by school authorities that the boys had been involved in arson and some petty thefts."
THE STUDENT OFFICER found that both of the boys' families had been on welfare at one time. One boy's mother was dead and his father's work kept him away from home much of the time. The other boy, from a family of eight, had been living with an aunt and uncle since his parents had separated.
"Neither of the boys had the proper parental care at home," the KU student said. And, he said, relatives of both had been in trouble with the law several times.
The two juvenile offenders had IQ's between 75 and 85. One boy had
been out of school for eight months and the other for two months. The boys had too much idle time and lacked interest in anything, he said.
IN REGARD to personality traits, he said both were submissive—"followers, rather than leaders, and extremely weak-willed."
"From this and other information, I wrote the investigative report," he continued.
"After an informal hearing, the judge placed the boys on probation under my authority."
THE CONDITIONS OF probation for both boys, which followed the recommendations in his investigative report, were:
- To be at home every week night by 8 o'clock, and 10:30 on Friday and Saturday nights.
- Not to leave town without first notifying the probation officer.
- To pay back the amount of money stolen at the rate of five dollars a week. Payment would be made by the boys, in person, to the proprietor of the grocery store. If, for some reason, they were not able to pay one week, they had to report to the proprietor telling him why.
- To attend school regularly.
- To have some definite responsibility at home.
IN EXPLAINING THE probation conditions, the student officer noted that the boys themselves were not required to replace the stolen money.
"The boys were unable to provide it. I felt that the parents should furnish the money. Because of lack of parental control, the parents were more at fault than the boys," he explained.
The correctional part of the probation program for the boys, added the officer, was the act of taking the money to the store owner and being reminded of the offense.
THE STUDENT OFFICER explained that "the objective of probation is not to make a leading citizen of the delinquent."
"Probation," he continued, "is supposed to keep them above a minimum standard of social behavior, that is, to keep them from being injurious to the public welfare.
"I felt that one way to keep the boys above that minimum standard of behavior was to keep them busy. Encouraging them to go to school was one way," he said.
ONE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY of the officer was to visit the boys in their homes at least once a week. "The arbitrary time I picked served as a curfew check," he said.
Charges Set Against Barnett
"Sometimes their folks were there watching television. I'd sit down with them in the living room like any other visitor. I'd ask the boys
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Justice Department plans to file criminal contempt proceedings next week against Gov. Ross Barnett as a result of the University of Mississippi integration riot of Sept. 30.
The action, ordered by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans last month, will set in motion legal procedure that could outlast Barnett's term of office. If so, any punishment ordered in the case would be brought against a former governor rather than one still in office.
Earnett's four-year term expires in January of 1964. Under the Mississippi constitution he cannot succeed himself.
U. S. attorneys will file in New Orleans a brief charging Barnett with criminal contempt. The state will be given time to answer the government before a hearing is set and the case is subject to other delays. A similar contemp proceeding against Theron Lynd, registrar of Forrest County, Miss., filed last May, has not been decided.
The Justice Department is expected to content that Barnett is not entitled to a jury trial, that the case should be tried by the appeals court itself.
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He described the boys as "little gentlemen" who treated him with respect. Sometimes however, he said he did not get much response from them.
"SOMETIMES, I FOUND myself at a loss at what to say. Our relationship was one of both fear and respect. I was authoritarian, and a friend, too. I hope."
ONE OF THE BOYS, with the help of a teacher, took a job in the school cafeteria to pay for meals. The other boy began taking an interest in a church-sponsored boys club.
He said he "tried to encourage the boys to take some kind of shop or vocational courses so that they could get a constructive job in the future.
questions, talk about their interests and in general, try to check on their progress," he said.
Concerning the effectiveness of probation on the boys' behavior, the officer said, "I really can't tell yet. The final proof is whether or not they revert back to delinquent behavior in the future."
(Tomorrow, Miss Machin's third and last article on KU law student probation officers will consider how effectively the student probation program has met its responsibilities.)
Engineers to Talk On Air-Space Field
Three aeronautical engineers and space technologists will discuss the aerospace industry Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. in 411 Summerfield Hall.
R. E. Bloomquist and F. H. Bergonz of Douglas Aircraft Co. will answer questions following their talks.
Sponsors are the KU student chapter of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences and the department of mechanics aerospace engineering. The public is invited.
Finals for Potpourri To Be Held in Fraser
There are 16 Speech I students remaining who are eligible to compete in the seventh annual speech potpourri.
In preliminary competition yesterday and Monday, 36 students were eliminated from the contest.
The final rounds for the event will begin at 8 tonight and tomorrow night in Fraser auditorium.
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