Abstract
Probation and parole officers who spend their lives advocating for rehabilitation and treatment for both adult offenders and juveniles should work tirelessly to provide services and resources to their clientele. Many probation officers entering the probation service have been acquiring Bachelor Degrees in Criminal Justice Administration offered at California State Universities, which is contrary to the more traditional education of probation officers of the past-social work, sociology, and criminology. Due to this influx of criminal justice administration majors, the service is losing its humanitarian ethos and is becoming more and more punitive. By researching the content of the required core courses of the criminal justice administration programs at California State University campuses, data supported that the education offered by the universities did provide more of an administrative, aggressive surveillance-control premise. The results of the project identified a variety of courses common among the universities as well as recommendations of other courses from other disciplines that shape an ideal curriculum for the benefit of better preparing and educating the officer.