Probation Officer Faces Challenge
By Maury Breecher Second in a Series
The KU student probation officer faces his greatest challenge when the juvenile offender is placed on probation and is required to make periodic reports to the student officer.
Often the student officer is the only person directly concerned with the welfare f the offender. The student officer has the opportunity to help the juvenile.
The juvenile hearing is conducted with the purpose of helping the child offender reform. The hearing is designed to give the juvenile the feeling that people are interested in helping him.
THUS THE hearing is conducted in the judge's chambers and is attended only by persons directly concerned with the offender.
This is the point where the student probation officer can really help the juvenile, through his recommendations to the probate judge.
The juvenile probation officer may recommend that the offender needs corrective instruction which he cannot get at home. If the judge agrees, the juvenile may be placed in a correctional institution. This is done to help the juvenile offender and "protect the child who is a delinquent, or about to become a delinquent, or is deprived or neglected," said Judge Charles C. Rankin. "It is not a punitive approach, it is to protect the juvenile and help him before he gets worse," he added.
PERHAPS THE student officer recommends that the juvenile does not need further instruction but his home environment is such that it will lead the juvenile into further breaking of the law. If
the judge agrees the juvenile may be placed in a private home or agency.
The student probation officer may help the offender in these ways but he can also help the juvenile by recommending probation for the offender.
If the juvenile offender is placed on probation he must make periodical reports to the student probation officer. The officer continues to show an active interest in the boy.
"It IS HOPED that the offender would be a better citizen than before and not be anti-social but be able to live in society and face his problems," said Chuck Hewitt, Pratt third-year law student and a student probation officer.
Sometimes, he invites the offender to dinner. Above all, the officer tries to instill in the boy a sense of worth and self confidence. If the juvenile makes his periodic reports and has not committed any further offenses during the specified period, he is released.
The Student Probation Officer Program provides law students with the maturity and intelligence to act as probation officers. The county could probably not afford to furnish full-time probation officers if the student program was stopped.
Part three of this series will deal with the new Prison Counseling Project.
Avery Delays Road Until Next Session
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)— Gov. William H. Avery announced Thursday deferment of his accelerated highway program until another session of the Legislature because of reapportionment.
Grant Given KU For Students
The Creole Foundation, with headquarters in Venezuela, has made an unrestricted grant of $1,000 to KU.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said the foundation, which is supported by the Creole Petroleum Corporation, made the grant because it provides scholarships for several Venezuelan students at KU.
Dr. Clark Coan, international student adviser, said the manner of using the $1,000 grant is still under consideration but it will be for the benefit of foreign students.
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