Training and Education. The minimum education required for probation officers is a bachelorâs degree in a human service related field. The best degree to obtain if you are interested in becoming a probation officer is either in social work or in criminal justice. Other options include sociology, criminology, or psychology.
In social psychology, group polarization refers to the tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.
Minority group is a term referring to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, i.e. those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society, and may be defined by law. Rather than a relational  social group , as the term would indicate, minority group refers to the above-described.n any case, minority group status is categorical in nature: an individual who exhibits the physical or behavioral characteristics of a given minority group will be accorded the status of that group and be subject to the same treatment as other members of that group.