2018 Volume 59 Issue 2 Pages 52-65
The purposes of this study were to examine the difficulties (specifically, the psychological stresses) faced by probation officers in the Probation Office of the Ministry of Justice and to organize the actual situations in a systematic manner, and to determine the differences in stresses faced by probation officers and social workers in rehabilitation facilities. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted for 17 probation officers, and then the data were analyzed verbatim using a modified grounded-theory approach. From the analysis results, 13 difficult concepts were established and from the relationships between them, the concepts were collected into four categories : stresses towards institutional and organizational limits, stresses caused by client behavior, stresses caused by adjusting to the living environment, and stresses caused by support deadlock. In this research, predictions were made about the difficulties that could be faced in rehabilitation of criminal offenders, and the characteristics of support in their rehabilitation were determined.
