Situation: You are a parole officer who has a single mother with three hyperactive, attention deficit-disorder young children on your caseload. The single mother receives no support from her ex-husband. Her mother wants nothing to do with her or the children because she believes “God is punishing” the young mother. She works as a topless dancer but hates it. She continues dancing because it pays the bills so well. You know she regularly smokes marijuana in an attempt to deal with stress. Obviously, this is a violation of probation. However, if you file a violation report on her, she will go back to prison. You know she is doing the best she can with her kids, is very involved with their school, and they are strongly bonded to her. As her …show more content…
The description of this profession involves monitoring offenders, organizing rehabilitation services, arranging job training, etc. However, the overall job of a parole officer is to ensure that offenders are following the guidelines of probation order by the judge and failure to comply will place offenders back in prison. As an officer, I would have to file a violation report because it is my duty to ensure that offenders follow the guidelines. Although, she is a single mother with no support I would still filed the report because she has violated her probation, in which she knew would cause her to be placed back into prison. As an officer, I could not let her slide with this violation because she uses smoking marijuana as a coping mechanism to deal with stress. There are other ways to handle stress without violating her probation. Therefore, she would have to suffer the …show more content…
Therefore, by me reporting the violation would help her get the treatment she needs and will help her make changes in her behavior, which results in the greatest number involved and that’s her children. As an officer, I would think that I made the right decision because she will get the help she needs and the children will benefit by their mother not doing illegal drugs. Also, the children would be placed in a more stable environment. The decision to report the violation would be in the best interest of each person involved. (2) I think that the ethics of care would apply because as an officer I am concerned with the safety of the children, especially since all 3 children have disorders. Ethics of care is the response to care for newborn, the ill, and hurt (Pollock, 2014). I think my decision as an officer will help the children get the appropriate help they need, which is what ethics of care is concerned with. (3) In addition, I think that ethical formalism would apply because this ethical system focuses on duty. Although, the mother is the children’s only caregiver she still violated her probation. As a parole officer I have to report this violation because it’s a required part of my legal duty. In this situation, as an officer I have a job that must be done and that’s to ensure that the mother is following her guidelines of