You are required to write a Pre Sentence Report (PSR) for Court for a fictional person awaiting sentence. You are to assume you are a Community Corrections Officer (CCO). Your report is required by...

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You are required to write a Pre Sentence Report (PSR) for Court for a fictional person awaiting sentence. You are to assume you are a Community Corrections Officer (CCO). Your report is required by the District Court to provide information regarding the factors associated with the person’s offending as well considerations for sentencing in accordance with theSentencing Act 1995(Western Australia), including comments as to the suitable treatment interventions if the person were sentenced to a community-based sanction or imprisoned.




In order to complete the report you will be provided with all of the relevant information you need, including; background information, details of the person’s crimes, a transcript of an interview with the person, details of the person’s personal supports, possible treatment interventions available in the community and prison and to participate in a mock follow-up interview where you will be able to ask additional questions of the offender (acted by a current Community Corrections staff member) to gauge their motivation for treatment.




This material will be made available in the assessments section of Canvas.




You will be provided with specific instruction on how to write this type of report during the semester.




The mock follow-up interview will take place inWeek 8: Thursday 18th April 2024 commencing at 16:30pmduring the scheduled seminar.




Your report will be expected to be of high quality (you are writing a (simulated) legal document for a court). You are required to provide your professional judgement and formulate a sense of the offender you are writing about. You are not simply listing facts.




Your court report must be typed using the template provided to you below.




You will be expected to support your conclusions regarding the offender withacademic references(there is no number required for this assignment, please consider 5 to 10 to support your conclusions). In-text references and an end-text reference list are required.



















Offender Data











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Specific to sexual offending:



















3 PSRs example summary and recommendation sections








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Guidance from Adult Community Corrections:

















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Assignment Criteria/Rubric

















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Your assignment will be marked based on:







  • The format of the report;



  • Your understanding of report writing principles;



  • The level of detail given;



  • Written expression;



  • The use of relevant literature and research (where required);






  • Level of thought given in the recommendations provided.








See the above Rubric provided for further details/weightings.














2. Evaluate literature and research considering the effectiveness of Community Corrections in order to determine risk to victims, offenders, workers and the wider community.




3. Assess and communicate the factors affecting different community-based sanctions and the nature and challenges associated with community-based supervision through a formal criminology report.




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Answer To: You are required to write a Pre Sentence Report (PSR) for Court for a fictional person awaiting...

Sanjukta answered on Apr 10 2024
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Introduction
This will be a Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) for Court concerning a fictional person namely Joe Bloggs. As a Community Corrections Officer, District Court will be provided with information regarding the major factors that is connected with the offending of a person along with it the considerations for sentencing as per Sentencing Act 1995(Western Australia). Furthermore, this report will consist of some comments as the proper treatment interventions if he w
ere sentenced to a community-based sanction or imprisoned. In his meeting he was by all accounts very certain dissimilar to different wrongdoers. In any case, alongside being sure he was likewise very well put together and mature. Joseph appeared to be very sharp for talking about his arrangements for discharge from the jail. During the essential stage he was at first very contemptuous with regards to the reality of his offenses. Then again, as referenced prior likewise he was an eager AFL fan however he is additionally imaginative. It was seen that Joseph was very unyielding for drawing me and he was utilizing mislead or control. It was his once in a lifetime chance for tending to his ways of behaving of concern and furthermore gaining the lifestyle choices free from culpable. He immediately showed his opposite side and referred me as horrible and hard for dismissing a benevolent deal even subsequent to realizing that it was recorded. In any case, aside from his imaginative advantages he likewise had interests in pornography yet Joseph has explicit interests in this section additionally on the grounds that his better half is more seasoned than him and don't gangs the capacity for being physically dynamic from a significant stretch of time. He confronted a few battles as the connection among him and his better half was not the least bit intimate and his significant other battled with this
Main Body
C O N F I D E N T I A L
ADULT COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
PRE SENTENCE REPORT (PSR)
    NAME:
    Joseph Alec BLOGGS
    DATE OF BIRTH:
    8 August 1954
    AGE: 70
    PLACE OF BIRTH:
    Kalgoorlie Western Australia
    ADDRESS:
    
    RELATIONSHI P STATUS:
    Married
    EMPLOYMENT STATUS:
    Unemployed
    PRESENTENC E REPORT
FOR
    District Court
    DATE DUE: 30-April-2024
    REMANDED
    Suitable treatment interventions if the Joseph is imprisoned
    
    PRESENT OFFENCES:
    7/07/2016    Your District Court    2x Indecent Dealing with a child under 13 years of age, 1x Sexual Penetration of a child under 13 years of age and 1x Driving with blood alcohol content of or above 0.08.
Joe has committed various sex offenses including 3 kids obscure to him. You have talked with him once and acquired the accompanying data. You have additionally scrutinized different departmental information bases and other electronic frameworks including the Court and Police frameworks. From one of these data sets, you affirm that Joe's sibling Anton, presently living in Adelaide is additionally known toward the Western Australian Equity Framework for criminal convictions. The most serious a Bothered Robbery in 1992. Records about any culpable of Joe from South Australia haven't been gotten at this point, ideally they return before you want to present your report.
Summary/recommendation
The case revolves around the fact that there are number of sexual offences that are committed by Joe and 3 children are victim of this crime. It has been observed while interviewing and observing Mr Joseph that he was a fan of AFL and wishes to see the finals this year.
As per the risk assessment it was highlighted that Joe’s risk rating is quite high and some of the areas that is highlighted in the report needs immediate attention consists of Family / Marital and Leisure/ Recreation and Pro-criminal Attitude. However, his history posses main concern in terms of commencing other offence particularly a sexual offence again. As in his interview also it is observed that he was aware of the sexual offence and he liked it and at the same time he thought it to be an improper action. He had inspiration as a boundary and participates wilfully ignorant/minimisation as responsively factors that would need to be suitably settled before treatment of the previously mentioned criminogenic necessities could happen or the reasonable decrease in recidivism might be fruitless/not ideal. While Mr Bloggs' age has been evaluated as a clinical thought, it isn't considered criminogenic or keeping him from tending to his gamble of recidivism, of general or explicit (physically brutal) insulting. His provincial region might should be thought about while deciding the treatment choices proper. By and large Mr Bloggs is at a raised gamble of reoffending for the most part without treatment to explicitly focus on all of the previously mentioned need and responsively regions.
In his interview he seemed to be quite confident...
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