Anthropology has played a role in many different things. Over time punishment for criminal has been developed. I think that anthropology can be related to the criminal justice field though the innovations of probation and parole.

Crime is not a new thing in society. The ways of dealing with criminals have changed. Instead of placing every criminal in jail there are other methods. Probation has become a popular alternative to jail. Parole helps offenders readjust to society. Probation and Parole play a big part in our justice system today.

Probation has seen many changes since it first started. Technology and people’s growing interest in the field have help to shape modern day probation. Probation can be supervised and non-supervised. Non-supervised probation is more of a contract between you and the law to not get in trouble again. Supervised probation is more complex.

Supervised probation offers a lot of different options to place the offender in. Regular supervised probation is more strict then unsupervised probation. The probationer will have to compile with standers of their probation and what their case worker asks of them.

People on probation must take regular drug test. Probationers are asked to have a regular job. They are even limited to people who they can associate with. They will also have to regularly report to a case worker. While regular probation is not enough for some offenders there are other options.

Some of the other options the offender can be placed on are ISP or electronic monitoring. ISP stands for intensive supervision probation. Offenders placed on this are usually more high risk then offenders on regular probation.

Since the offenders are more high risk their probation is stricter. An offender on ISP will receive more home visits and more drug testing. Electronic monitoring can be used for those who are under house arrest. This is used as a form of probation as well.

Parole is the process used on some offenders when they are done with incarceration. People on parole will sometimes live at half way house. They live at half way house or are assigned probation officers to help them readjust to society.

I think that probation and parole is a result of anthropological research on methods that would better fit the punishment of offender than prison or jail.

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