Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #7 - Giving Focus to Community Corrections (ACJ7-A003)

Origins of the probation service, its administrative structure, the respective roles of Professional Probation Officers (“PPOs”), hogo kansatsu kan, and the nearly 50 times more numerous Volunteer Probation Officers (“VPOs”), hogo-shi, are described. Recruitment of VPOs, their backgrounds, increasing age, methods of work and training is outlined, followed by activities of local VPO Associations, Offender Rehabilitation Support Centres and other voluntary organisations with whom they work. Strengths of the distinctive Japanese VPO system are analysed, followed by a discussion of challenges it faces.

 

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