Vocational School of Justice
MONITORING VISIT BY IUE SOCIOLOGISTS
Students of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), studied the mechanisms of Izmir Probation Directorate.
Murat Kalkan, Director of Izmir Probation Directorate, gave information about the functioning of the institution and said that they were in charge of following and monitoring of 22 thousand offenders, and reported that 863 of those were subject to working in public institutions without pay. Psychologists working at the institution also shared their work experiences with the students.
Prof. Dr. Nuran Erol, Head of IUE Department of Sociology, pointed out that students gained experience through visits regarding their line of work, and said that graduates of the department could work as probation specialists.