LES CONSEQUENCES DE LA REFORME DU SYSTEME DE JUSTICE ROUMAINE SUR LES SERVICES DE PROBATION
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE REFORM OF THE ROMANIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM ON PROBATION SERVICES

Summary/Abstract: The history of probation in Romania, the stages of development, its practices and strategies, and also the specific status strategies during times of crisis generated by the decision of the alignment at the European standards of the probation (legal) advisers’ activities were broached in this study. In order to offer consistency to our step we focused on a moment of crisis during our national probation services, moment induced by coming into force of the changes made to the 482 Article of the Criminal Law Code, starting with the 1st of April 2007. The 482 Article stipulated the obligatory character of asking the evaluation reports by the criminal pursuit services (The Police and Prosecutor’s Office) or by the Juridical Court in cases with minor delinquents. From all 41 present services at national level, the probation legal advisers are in charge with writing down these evaluation reports. In the case study made at the Bucharest Service of Probation were detected the legal advisers’ practices and reactions in the context of extra charging service activity, strategies to come out of crisis and the end of it.

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