Creating a Probation Officer Field Report

Please find a template or an example of a field report used by a probation officer in their line of work. Reference all academic sources used.

Please be thorough and hit distinguished in the scoring guide.

Review Appendix A, “Model Reports,” in Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals, on pages 315–336.

Review Appendix B, “Examples of Agency Instructions for Completing Report Forms,” in Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals, on pages 337–408.

Preparing the report — you’re writing a full report on a case of your choosing (*not* a Jared Remy case — please choose something from your own work, from the newspapers that you find on your own, or from your own imagination). You need to find and use an appropriate template for a form if your report would be filed in a form. If you would have a different structure for your report, be sure to follow an appropriate model for that. Our textbook has models (you’ll find them in this week’s reading, right?), but you will find many more online by searching for the type of report you’re writing and adding the word “sample” or “example” to your Google search.

Preparing Your Field Report

Narrative writing is a key element in the various writing (and reading) tasks that you will engage in your criminal justice career. You will see that we are now engaging that narrative further and mobilizing it in the field report that you are looking at this week.

As we finalize the drafts of the narratives, you should also be seeing how the narrative fits the field report, and how it is so integral to the story that is told in the report.

You have each chosen a particular character to profile in Units 1 and 2. That character aligns with a subfield of criminal justice—a career path, in other words. Using that career path, find an appropriate report for the field to complete (you may use the textbooks, the library, and the internet to help you, but please do ask the instructor for help with this, as well, if you need it). You will likely find a form or template-like model to follow for many of these positions, but for some (like attorneys), you will not have forms to fill out.

For the assignment in the upcoming unit, you will write a field report that follows one of the models of the reports a criminal justice professional is likely to write on a regular basis, similar to what you learned about this character from your profile in Units 1 and 2. You may have many reports to choose from for some characters, and few for others. This is natural.

Peer Review of Field Report Task

Based on the preparation you did in the previous unit’s study, for this discussion, you will submit the rough draft of your field report for peer review. Be sure to review the complete assignment instructions in Unit 7 to complete your draft. The revision of your report, based on peer feedback, will result in the final draft of the narrative in Unit 7.

Week 7 instructions, so you get it right…

Final Field Report Task

For this assignment, you will finalize your field report draft submitted in the previous unit’s discussion. Building upon what you learned in the Unit 6 study for this assignment’s preparation as well as the Profile and the Narrative assignments, choose one type of field report and draft it. You may be drafting a police incident report, an internal affairs investigation report, a parole report, et cetera. You may find and use a template for the report, as appropriate.

You should expect to write between 2 and 7 pages, depending upon the type of report you are completing and its purpose; and you should complete the following tasks to draft your report:

Write a report to satisfy the chosen purpose, making appropriate use of detail and presenting information clearly, fairly, and persuasively.

Apply strategies for structuring the field report effectively.

Use the accepted style and form of the field report to develop a central point in an organized document.

Incorporate peer and instructor feedback into a revised, proofread, and polished document.

Running head: REMY NARRATIVE
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Remy Narrative
Kelsey Jochim
Capella University
Writing Strategies for Criminal Justice
ENG1100
Dr. Sonja Andrus
April 30, 2019
REMY NARRATIVE
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Remy Narrative
On November 7th, 2005, I, Officer Jochim #999, was dispatched to 333 That St. Dispatch stated there was
a domestic physical disturbance and the caller was awaiting officers. Upon arrival, I immediately located
the female victim, later identified as:
McMahon, Ryan
W/F
11/11/1911
McMahon had visible injuries consisting of a bleeding broken nose, cut and swollen lip, and a red and
swollen left eye surrounded by a welt. McMahon stated she had been assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, later
identified as
REMY, Jared
W/M
10/10/1910
McMahon stated she returned to the apartment she once shared with REMY to retrieve her belongings.
Once there, McMahon asked REMY, “Do I need a police escort this time?” McMahon stated REMY turned
aggressive and responded by dragging her down the stairs, hitting her repeatedly in the stomach with his
cell phone and ripping her home phone from the wall. McMahon stated REMY also threw her to the floor
by her hair and punched her and kicked her repeatedly in the face and stomach, even though she tried to
defend herself by rolling herself into a ball in the corner of the room. McMahon stated she then escaped
to a neighbor’s house, ending the fight, where she called 911. REMY was not at the scene when I arrived.
I requested officers to look for REMY at his parents’ home at 444 Hello Dr.
Officers responding to 444 Hello Dr. found REMY peering through a window from the inside prior to their
entrance of the home. REMY was arrested, at which time he stated to the responding officers, “I admit it, I
slapped her around,” while shrugging off the consequences stating, “It’s just another year of probation.”
REMY was taken to county Jail and booked on 4 counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon,
assault and battery and intimidating the witness.
REMY NARRATIVE
EOR
KJ #999
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REMY NARRATIVE
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References
Timeline: Jared Remy’s troubled past [Newspaper]. (2014, March 23). Boston Globe. Retrieved from
https://www3.bostonglobe.com/2014/03/22/jared-remytimeline/RnIJqOgNMk6tryVl1YjATN/story.html?arc404=true