Main Tasks

Overview of Probation

About Probation

Probation is an advanced criminal policy system to help offenders continue a normal life without detention and reduce their criminality by ensuring their compliance with the conditions through probation officers’ supervision, and community service orders or intervention orders.

Tasks of Probation Office

Probation
Community service
Intervention
Pre-sentence report
Electronic Monitoring
Pharmacological treatment of sex offenders
Treatment orders

Benefits of Probation

Humane criminal policies

Probation prevents disconnection of offenders from their homes, workplaces, and society, which is caused by detaining them in prisons and juvenile detention centers, in order to help them maintain their relationships with their families, so as to reduce financial and psychological difficulties experienced by the offenders and their family members.
This system prevents offenders from learning crime, which is caused by accommodation of offenders in a prison, and helps offenders swiftly and stably reenter into society, thus effectively fulfilling the goal to reduce recidivism.

Opened for people to participate in offender rehabilitation programs

Probation is implemented based on the local community. Therefore, volunteers and the general public can take part in guiding offenders.

2020: Specific Criminal Management Division renamed as Electronic Monitoring Division
Implementation of the “electronic monitoring on bail” system
Electronic monitoring applied to all persons released on parole

2019: Implementation of the one-on-one electronic monitoring system

2016: Implementation of the treatment order system

2015: Installation of the Specific Criminal Management Division, Crime Prevention Policy Bureau under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice

2014: Expansion of robbery offenders subject to wearing e-tagging

2013: Implementation of probation after execution of sentence
Implementation of National Community Service Assistance System

2011: Implementation of the pharmacotherapy system for controlling sexual impulses
Implementation of the Sexual Violence Treatment Program Order

2010: Expansion of the electronic monitoring system (retroactively applied to homicide and sex offenders)

2009: Implementation of community service on nonpayment of fines

2008: Implementation of the curfew supervising voice verification system
Implementation of the electronic monitoring system (sexual offenders)
Implementation of investigation before request, decision, and judgment (adult)

2005: Implementation of John School

2004: Implementation of probation on sex trafficking offenders

2003: Implementation of intensive probation

2001: Implementation of the wanted system on persons subject to probation

1998: Implementation of probation on domestic violence offenders

1997: Expansion of the implementation of probation on adult offenders

1995: Establishment of an electronic management system of persons subject to probation (MSPP)

1994: Implementation of probation on sexual offenders

1989: Implementation of the probation system (juvenile delinquency)
Implementation of preliminary investigation (juveniles)
Opening of probation agencies (22 agencies)

1988: Enactment of the Act on Probation