Section 2 Probation/Parole Supervision

Probation/parole supervision aims to prevent persons under probation/parole supervision from repeating offenses or delinquency and to facilitate their improvement and rehabilitation. This supervision, which allows them to lead positive lives in a community, is implemented by accurately identifying the factors that contribute to their crimes or delinquencies, as well as the matters that can facilitate their rehabilitation, and through cooperation between probation officers and volunteer probation officers (VPOs or Hogoshi in Japanese). Probation officers and VPOs maintain contact with persons under probation/parole supervision through interviews in order to observe their lives in society, and provide them with any needed instruction and supervision to ensure that they can follow their conditions for probation/parole supervision. Probation officers and VPOs also provide persons under probation/parole supervision with guidance and assistance to secure residences and find jobs, etc. so they can become self-supporting.

Persons under probation/parole supervision include [1] those placed under probation as a protective measure on the basis of a decision made by a family court (juvenile probationers), [2] those granted parole from juvenile training schools and placed under parole supervision (juvenile training school parolees), [3] those granted parole from penal institutions and placed under parole supervision (parolees), and [4] those granted full or partial suspension of execution of their sentence and placed under probation (probationers).