What is the difference between paternal officers and punitive officers?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Paternal officers use both control and assistance techniques. They protect both the
offender and the community by providing the offender with assistance, as well as
praising and blaming. These officers are impartial regarding the concerns of the
offender or the community; this is just a job that they do. These officers may be
perceived as noncommittal by taking the community’s side in one case, then the
offender’s in another. The officers do not tend to have a high degree of formal training
or secondary education, but they are generally very experienced.
Punitive officers need to use threats and punishment to get compliance from the
offender. These officers may also view the offender as a “lower class” of individual and
are likely to see punitive methods of control as the only type of mechanism that the
offender population will or can understand. They will likely have a morally judgmental
view of their caseload. These officers place emphasis on control and protection of the
public against offenders. The view is that those on the caseload are doing wrong but not
getting caught. Human relations between this officer and his caseload are usually fairly
impaired and strained.