Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
SOC Code: 21-1092
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialistss prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender. This career typically requires considerable preparation (2-4 years). With an AI-proof score of 74.2/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Social Perceptiveness, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking.
AI-Proof Score: 74.2 — High
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Median Salary
$64,520
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Job Growth
2.6%
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Training Time
Considerable preparation (2-4 years)
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Job Zone
Zone 4 / 5
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Training Cost
~$40,000
Key Skills
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Critical Thinking
- •Speaking
- •Active Listening
- •Writing
Common Tasks
- ✓Prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.
- ✓Gather information about offenders' backgrounds by talking to offenders, their families and friends, and other people who have relevant information.
- ✓Interview probationers and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
- ✓Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
- ✓Supervise people on community-based sentences, such as electronically monitored home detention, and provide field supervision of probationers by conducting curfew checks or visits to home, work, or school.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation