Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
Community and Social ServiceAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists with an AI automation risk score of 20%. Analysis includes 21 core tasks.
Safer Career Paths
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Key Tasks
Assess the suitability of penitentiary inmates for release under parole and statutory release programs and submit recommendations to parole boards.
Write reports describing offenders' progress.
Prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.
Identify and approve work placements for offenders with community service sentences.
Gather information about offenders' backgrounds by talking to offenders
Interview probationers and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
Supervise people on community-based sentences
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data