Question

A probation officer faces role conflict every day. this conflict focuses around:

a. the demands of the organization and the expectations of the offender.
b. the responsibilities of enforcing the law and helping the offender simultaneously.
c. personal expectations about probation work and the visible realities of the job.
d. investments of time by the probation officer with respect to presentence investigation reports and counseling offenders.

Answer 1

The correct answer is b. the responsibilities of enforcing the law and helping the offender simultaneously.

It can happen that he sees that the offender does something illegal out of necessity and poverty but he has to enforce the law and arrest him even though he knows that the offender can't do anything else because no one will give him a job or anything similar.