You Are a Parole Officer Who Is Being Transferred from a Facility

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Essay

You are a parole officer who is being transferred from a facility that only handles men to one that handles women's cases. As you start your new job, you want to be fair, but you know that women might have different needs and expectations than men. How you treat them differently? Why? Be sure to cite statistics from your text in your answer.

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Definitions:

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept that suggests individuals seek pleasure and avoid pain to satisfy their biological and psychological needs.

Regression

In psychology, a defense mechanism where an individual's behavior reverts to an earlier stage of development, often in response to stressful situations.

Neurological Sense

A term that may not be precisely defined but could refer to the ability to receive and interpret stimuli through the nervous system.

Collective Unconscious

A concept in Jungian psychology referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind.