**338Defendant was convicted of committing four crimes over a two-month period. He received two suspended sentences and was placed on probation. His probation was revoked after he was charged with **339committing additional crimes. We now consider whether defendant received adequate notice of his probation revocation hearing pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e). We modify and affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals and uphold the revocation of defendant's probation.
In August 2012, defendant was arrested for and charged with breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering. Defendant was released on bond and then, in September 2012, was arrested for and charged with committing those same offenses again. Defendant pleaded guilty to the August crimes and entered an Alford plea for the September crimes. Defendant received a suspended sentence of eight to nineteen months and supervised probation for twenty-four months for the August crimes. He received a suspended sentence of six to seventeen months and supervised probation for twenty-four months for the September crimes. The punishments for these crimes were to run consecutively. The judgments in both instances listed many of the "regular conditions of probation" under N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b). The listed conditions included that "defendant shall ... [c]ommit no criminal offense in any jurisdiction," consistent with the language of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1).
Defendant's probation for the September crimes was modified and extended a number of times due to violations of probation conditions. On 3 June 2015, the State filed two probation violation reports relating to defendant's probation for the August and September 2012 crimes, respectively. The reports alleged violations of monetary conditions of probation. Each report also alleged an "Other Violation" that listed various pending criminal charges. Specifically, under "Other Violation" the reports each stated the same thing:
The defendant has the following pending charges in Orange County. 15CR 051315 No Operators License 6/8/15, 15CR 51309 Flee/Elude Arrest w/MV 6/8/15. 13CR 709525 No Operators License 6/15/15, 14CR 052225 Possess Drug Paraphernalia 6/16/15, 14CR 052224 Resisting Public Officer 6/16/15, 14CR706236 No Motorcycle Endorsement 6/29/15, 14CR 706235 Cover Reg Sticker/Plate 6/29/15, and 14CR 706234 Reg Card Address Change Violation.
(Original in all uppercase.)
In January 2016, after many months of continuances, the trial court held a hearing on these violation reports.1 Defendant's probation officer **340testified about the new offenses alleged in the reports, and two police officers testified about defendant's fleeing to elude arrest two different times. The trial court found that defendant had violated the condition of probation to commit no criminal offense, and specifically found that defendant had "committed the charges of" fleeing to elude arrest and of not having an operator's license. The trial court accordingly revoked *552defendant's probation and activated the suspended sentences for defendant's August and September 2012 crimes, to be served consecutively.
Defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals, claiming that the probation violation reports did not give him adequate notice because they did not specifically state the condition of probation that he allegedly violated. In a divided opinion, the Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's judgments. State v. Moore , --- N.C. App. ----, ----, 795 S.E.2d 598, 600 (2016). The Court of Appeals concluded that the notice was adequate-that there was "no ambiguity"-because the allegations in the violation reports could point only to the revocation-eligible violation of the condition to commit no new criminal offense. Id. at ----, 795 S.E.2d at 600. Defendant appealed to this Court based on the dissenting opinion in the Court of Appeals.
Before revoking a defendant's probation, a trial court must conduct a hearing to determine whether the defendant's probation should be revoked, unless the defendant waives the hearing. N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) (2015). "The State must give the probationer notice of the hearing and its purpose, including a statement of the violations alleged." Id. Probation can be revoked only if a defendant (1) commits a criminal offense in any jurisdiction in violation of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1) ; (2) absconds from supervision in violation of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(3a) ; or (3) has already served two periods of confinement for violating other conditions of probation according to N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(d2). Id. § 15A-1344(a) (2015). Only the first of these statutorily-enumerated instances-the commission of a criminal offense-is at issue here.
Defendant argues that, because the probation violation reports did not specifically list the "commit no criminal offense" condition as the condition violated, the reports did not provide the notice that subsection 15A-1345(e) requires. We must address whether these reports complied with the statute's notice requirement. To do that, we need to examine what exactly that statutory provision means. This is a matter of first impression for this Court.
"In resolving issues of statutory construction, this Court must first ascertain legislative intent to assure that both the purpose and the intent **341of the legislation are carried out. In undertaking this task, we look first to the language of the statute itself." Poole v. Miller , 342 N.C. 349, 351, 464 S.E.2d 409, 410 (1995) (citation omitted). "[O]rdinarily words of a statute will be given their natural, approved, and recognized meaning." Victory Cab Co. v. City of Charlotte , 234 N.C. 572, 576, 68 S.E.2d 433, 436 (1951).
Subsection 15A-1345(e) provides that "[t]he State must give the probationer notice of the hearing and its purpose, including a statement of the violations alleged." Neither the term "violation" nor the term "violations," as used in the statutory framework of which subsection 15A-1345(e) is a part, are defined by statute. Black's Law Dictionary defines "violation" as "1. An infraction or breach of the law; a transgression.... 2. The act of breaking or dishonoring the law; the contravention of a right or duty." Violation , Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014). Similarly, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines "violation" as "the act of violating" and indicates in its definition of "violate" that "violating" means "break[ing]" or "disregard[ing]." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1396 (11th ed. 2007). These definitions show that a violation is an action that violates some rule or law; a violation is not the underlying rule or law that was violated. In section 15A-1345, and hence in subsection 15A-1345(e), the words "violation" and "violations" refer to violations of conditions of probation. See, e.g. , N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(a) (2015) (discussing when "[a] probationer is subject to arrest for violation of conditions of probation"). It follows that the phrase "a statement of the violations alleged" refers to a statement of what a probationer did to violate his conditions of probation. It does not require a statement of the underlying conditions that were violated.
"[I]n effectuating legislative intent, it is our duty to give effect to the words actually used in a statute and not to delete words used or to insert words not used."
*553Lunsford v. Mills , 367 N.C. 618, 623, 766 S.E.2d 297, 301 (2014). Defendant would have us insert a requirement into the statute that simply is not there: one that requires the State to provide notice of the specific condition of probation that defendant allegedly violated. This approach would effectively add words to the statute so that the statute would read "a statement of the violations alleged and the conditions of probation allegedly violated. " But the statute as it actually reads, without the italicized words, requires only a statement of the actions that violated the conditions, not of the conditions that those actions violated.
Our straightforward interpretation is further supported by looking at the use of the word "violation" in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(a). This provision **342appears in the statute that directly precedes the statute in which subsection 15A-1345(e) appears and is part of the same statutory framework regarding probation. Subsection 15A-1344(a) pertains to the authority of trial courts to modify or revoke probation. In discussing when a court can revoke probation, the provision states that "[t]he court may only revoke probation for a violation of a condition of probation under" certain specified provisions. N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(a) (emphasis added). So the word "violation" cannot be synonymous with the phrase "condition of probation," because subsection 15A-1344(a) uses "condition of probation" to modify "violation." And that makes sense, because the phrase "condition of probation" is describing what was violated rather than the action that constituted the violation.
This interpretation is also consistent with the notice provision's purpose. Just as with the notice provided by criminal indictments, see, e.g. , State v. Russell , 282 N.C. 240, 243-44, 192 S.E.2d 294, 296 (1972), "[t]he purpose of the notice mandated by [ N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) ] is to allow the defendant to prepare a defense and to protect the defendant from a second probation violation hearing for the same act," State v. Hubbard , 198 N.C. App. 154, 158, 678 S.E.2d 390, 393 (2009) (citing Russell , 282 N.C. at 243-44, 192 S.E.2d at 296 ). A statement of a defendant's alleged actions that constitute the alleged violation will give that defendant the chance to prepare a defense because he will know what he is accused of doing. He will also be able to determine the possible effects on his probation that those allegations could have, and he will be able to gather any evidence available to rebut the allegations. Our interpretation is therefore consistent with both the language of the statute and its purpose.
The Court of Appeals in this case based its holding on, and the parties primarily argue over, a line of cases with which we disagree. Before the Justice Reinvestment Act (JRA) was enacted in 2011, the Court of Appeals correctly interpreted subsection 15A-1345(e) in State v. Hubbard , 198 N.C. App. 154, 678 S.E.2d 390 (2009). In Hubbard , the Court of Appeals held that the State had complied with the notice requirement because, "while the condition of probation which Defendant allegedly violated might have been ambiguously stated in the [violation] report, the report also set forth the specific facts that the State contended constituted the violation." Id. at 158, 678 S.E.2d at 394. "Defendant received notice of the specific behavior Defendant was alleged and found to have committed in violation of Defendant's probation." Id. at 159, 678 S.E.2d at 394. In other words, notice of the factual allegations-the specific behavior-that constituted the violation was enough.
**343After the JRA was passed, however, the Court of Appeals began imposing an additional notice requirement that is not found in the text of subsection 15A-1345(e). Starting with State v. Tindall , 227 N.C. App. 183, 742 S.E.2d 272 (2013), the Court of Appeals began requiring that, when the State seeks to revoke a defendant's probation at a revocation hearing, the notice of the hearing provided by the State must indicate the revocation-eligible condition of probation that the defendant has allegedly violated. See id. at 187, 742 S.E.2d at 275. The Court of Appeals noted in Tindall that the JRA changed the law by making only some of the conditions of probation revocation-eligible instead of all of them. Id. at 185, 742 S.E.2d at 274 ; see also Justice Reinvestment Act of 2011, ch. 192, sec. 4(b), 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 758, 767-68 (amending N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(a) ). The Court of Appeals then concluded that Hubbard did not apply because it was decided *554before the JRA changed the law. Tindall , 227 N.C. App. at 187, 742 S.E.2d at 275. The Court of Appeals reasoned that, after the JRA, a probationer needs to "receive[ ] notice that the alleged violation was the type of violation that could potentially result in a revocation of her probation." Id. at 187, 742 S.E.2d at 275.
In State v. Kornegay , 228 N.C. App. 320, 745 S.E.2d 880 (2013), the Court of Appeals recognized that it was bound by Tindall and applied that decision. See id. at 323, 745 S.E.2d at 883. The Court of Appeals stated that, in order "[t]o establish jurisdiction over specific allegations in a probation revocation hearing, the defendant either must waive notice or be given proper notice of the revocation hearing, including the specific grounds on which his probation might be revoked ." Id. at 324, 745 S.E.2d at 883 (emphasis added). The Court of Appeals later applied the Tindall and Kornegay line of cases in State v. Lee , 232 N.C. App. 256, 753 S.E.2d 721 (2014).
But the JRA did not change the notice requirements for probation revocation hearings. So, to the extent that Tindall , Kornegay , and Lee created a new notice requirement not found in the text of subsection 15A-1345(e), they are overruled.
It is true that, before the JRA was enacted in 2011, trial courts had authority to revoke probation for a violation of any probation condition. See N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344 (2010). After the JRA, by contrast, only violations of any of the three conditions specified in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(a) are revocation-eligible. Yet the purpose of the JRA had nothing to do with heightened notice requirements for revocation hearings. The JRA's purpose was "to reduce prison populations and spending on corrections and then to reinvest the savings in community-based programs." James M. Markham, The North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Act 1 (2012).
**344Before the JRA was enacted, over half of the individuals entering North Carolina prisons were doing so because of violations of conditions of probation. Id. at 2. In fiscal year 2009, moreover, three-quarters of these individuals were entering "for violations of supervision conditions, not the result of a new conviction or absconding." Council of State Gov'ts Justice Ctr., Justice Reinvestment in North Carolina: Three Years Later 3 (Nov. 2014). The changes to the law that the JRA effected were consistent with these concerns because subsection 15A-1344(a), as amended by the JRA, now makes only committing a new criminal offense or absconding revocation-eligible unless a defendant has already served two periods of confinement for violating other conditions of probation. See Ch. 192, sec. 4(b), N.C. Sess. Laws at 767-68. The decrease in revocation-eligible conditions-that is, the decrease in conditions whose violation would land a probationer back in prison-would have the natural effect of reducing the prison population.
Even more fundamental than purpose, of course, is text. As we have discussed, the phrase "a statement of the violations alleged" in subsection 15A-1345(e)'s notice requirement has a straightforward meaning when each of the words in that phrase is "given [its] natural, approved, and recognized meaning." Victory Cab Co. , 234 N.C. at 576, 68 S.E.2d at 436. And the JRA did not change the text of this phrase, compare Act of June 23, 1977, ch. 711, sec. 1, 1977 N.C. Sess. Laws 853, 870-71 (captioned "An Act to Amend the Laws Relating to Criminal Procedure"), with N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) (2015), so it did not change the phrase's meaning. That should not be surprising, because keeping the notice requirement as-is comports with the JRA's purpose. Just as reducing the number of substantive crimes could reduce the prison population without any change in indictment requirements, reducing the number of revocation-eligible conditions of probation can reduce the prison population without any change in notice requirements.
Turning to the specifics of this case, the State sought to prove that defendant had violated the condition that he commit no criminal offense. As we have seen, subsection 15A-1345(e) required the State to give defendant notice of his probation revocation hearing that "includ[ed] a statement of the violations alleged." This means that the notice needed to contain a statement of the actions defendant allegedly took that constituted a violation of a condition of probation-that is, *555a statement of what defendant allegedly did that violated a probation condition. Here the alleged violation was the act of committing a criminal offense. Defendant therefore needed to receive a statement of the criminal offense or offenses that he allegedly committed. **345The violation reports in this case stated that "the defendant has the following pending charges in Orange County," and then went on to list, among other things, the names of the specific offenses and the criminal case file numbers. While incurring criminal charges is not a violation of a probation condition, criminal charges are alleged criminal offenses. And committing a criminal offense is a violation of a probation condition. A statement of pending criminal charges, then, is a statement of alleged violations. The information in the violation reports therefore constituted "a statement of the violations alleged" because it notified defendant of the actions he allegedly took that violated a probation condition.2 As the Court of Appeals stated in Hubbard, "[d]efendant received notice of the specific behavior [d]efendant was alleged and found to have committed in violation of [his] probation." 198 N.C. App. at 159, 678 S.E.2d at 394. That is all that is required under subsection 15A-1345(e).
Both the concurring opinion and the dissenting opinion in this case suggest that our interpretation of subsection 15A-1345(e) could result in due process violations. The dissent appears to take that analysis even further and finds that defendant's due process rights were violated in this case. But defendant appealed this case to this Court based solely on a dissent in the Court of Appeals, and neither party petitioned for discretionary review of additional issues. Our review is therefore limited to the issue or issues "specifically set out in the dissenting opinion as the basis for that dissent." N.C. R. App. P. 16(b). In this case, the basis for the dissent in the Court of Appeals was only that the majority had not properly applied subsection 15A-1345(e). See Moore , --- N.C. App. at ----, 795 S.E.2d at 600-02 (Hunter, Jr., J., dissenting). The Court of Appeals dissent said nothing at all about due process or the Fourteenth Amendment. See generally id. As a result, there is no constitutional issue before us. This case is simply about statutory interpretation.
The "statement of the violations alleged" requirement in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) is satisfied by a statement of the actions that a defendant has allegedly taken that constitute a violation of a condition of probation. We therefore modify the Court of Appeals' decision to the extent that it holds otherwise. In this case, the probation violation reports included a list of the criminal offenses that defendant allegedly committed. That list provided a statement of alleged acts by defendant that, if proved, would violate a probation condition, as required by subsection 15A-1345(e).
**346Accordingly, we modify and affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals and uphold the trial court's revocation of defendant's probation.
MODIFIED AND AFFIRMED.
Justice ERVIN, concurring, in part, and concurring in the result, in part.
In this case, the Court holds that the trial court had jurisdiction to revoke defendant's probation because "the probation violation reports included a list of the criminal offenses that defendant allegedly committed" and "[t]hat list provided a statement of defendant's alleged acts that violated a probation condition, as required by subsection 15A-1345(e)." In reaching this conclusion, the Court has overruled the Court of Appeals' decisions in State v. Lee , 232 N.C. App. 256, 753 S.E.2d 721 (2014) ; State v. Kornegay , 228 N.C. App. 320, 745 S.E.2d 880 ; and State v. Tindall , 227 N.C. App. 183, 742 S.E.2d 272 (2013), on the grounds that the State is not required to give probationers "notice of the particular revocation-eligible violation," Lee , 232 N.C. App. at 260, 753 S.E.2d at 723 (2014), and that a statement of the probationer's alleged conduct is all that is required to support a trial court's revocation decision. Although I fully concur in the Court's decision to uphold the revocation of defendant's *556probation, I cannot agree with all of the reasoning in which the Court has engaged in order to reach that result or with its decision to overrule the Court of Appeals' decisions in Tindall , Kornegay , and Lee .1
As the majority notes, "[a]fter the [Justice Reinvestment Act] was passed" "only some of the conditions of probation [became] revocation-eligible instead of all of them." See Tindall , 227 N.C. App. at 185, 742 S.E.2d at 274. More specifically, following the enactment of the Justice Reinvestment Act, a trial court was only entitled to revoke a defendant's probation in the event that the defendant has (1) committed a criminal offense; (2) absconded supervision; or (3) served two periods of confinement in response to violation of other conditions of probation. N.C.G.S. § 15A-1344(a) (2015).
**347Before revoking or extending probation, the court must, ... hold a hearing to determine whether to revoke or extend probation and must make findings to support the decision and a summary record of the proceedings. The State must give the probationer notice of the hearing and its purpose, including a statement of the violations alleged.
Id . § 15A-1345(e) (2015). The ultimate issue before the Court in this case is the meaning of the statutory requirement that the probationer receive "a statement of the violations alleged" before a trial court can revoke his or her probation.
"A probation revocation proceeding is not a formal criminal prosecution, and probationers thus have 'more limited due process right[s].' " State v. Murchison , 367 N.C. 461, 464, 758 S.E.2d 356, 358 (2014) (alteration in original) (quoting Gagnon v. Scarpelli , 411 U.S. 778, 789, 93 S.Ct. 1756, 1763, 36 L.Ed.2d 656, 666 (1973), superseded by statute , Parole Commission and Reorganization Act, Pub. L. No. 94-233, 90 Stat. 228 (1976) ). As a matter of due process, however,
[t]he probationer is entitled to written notice of the claimed violations of his probation; disclosure of the evidence against him; an opportunity to be heard in person and to present witnesses and documentary evidence; a neutral hearing body; and a written statement by the factfinder as to the evidence relied on and the reasons for revoking probation.
Black v. Romano , 471 U.S. 606, 612, 105 S.Ct. 2254, 2258, 85 L.Ed.2d 636, 642-43 (1985) (citing Gagnon , 411 U.S. at 786, 93 S.Ct. at 1761, 36 L.Ed.2d at 664 ). The General Assembly has effectuated this notice-related due process requirement by enacting N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e), the proper construction of which is the only issue that is before us in this case.
As should be obvious, "[t]he purpose of the notice mandated by this section is to allow the defendant to prepare a defense and to protect the defendant from a second probation violation hearing for the same act." State v. Hubbard , 198 N.C. App. 154, 158, 678 S.E.2d 390, 393 (2009) (citation omitted). For that reason, I am inclined to believe that the notice required by N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) must adequately inform the probationer of the condition that he or she is alleged to have violated, given that, following the enactment of the Justice Reinvestment Act,2 **348violations of certain conditions of probation justify revocation while violations of other conditions of probation do not. I am frankly at a loss to *557see how a probationer can adequately prepare a defense in the event that he or she cannot determine the consequences to the continued existence of his "conditional liberty" that might flow from a determination in the State's favor.3
According to the Court, the statutory reference to "a statement of the violations alleged" contained in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) "requires only a statement of the actions that violated the conditions, not of the conditions that those actions violated," with this determination being predicated, at least in part, on the understanding that "the word 'violation' cannot be synonymous with the phrase 'condition of probation,' because subsection 15A-1344(a) uses 'condition of probation' to modify 'violation.' " After examining the plain language of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e), I am inclined to refrain from parsing the relevant statutory language that finely. Instead of being limited solely to a statement of conduct, it seems to me that the statutory reference to "a statement of the violations alleged," when read as a unified whole, necessarily refers to both the specific conduct in which a defendant allegedly engaged and the likely effect of that conduct upon the continuation of the defendant's conditional liberty.
A defendant does, in many instances, receive adequate notice as required by N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) in the event that a violation report includes nothing more than "a statement of the actions defendant allegedly took that constituted a violation of a condition of probation." Such a situation exists when the conduct alleged "could only point to a revocation-eligible violation." State v. Moore , --- N.C. App. ----, ----, 795 S.E.2d 598, 600 (2016). For instance, in State v. Lee , the violation report alleged that the "defendant had violated four conditions of his probation," including "that he commit no criminal offense," 232 N.C. App. at 258, 753 S.E.2d at 722, and listed "several new pending charges which **349were specifically identified," id . at 259, 753 S.E.2d at 723. I believe that the Court of Appeals correctly held in Lee that the notice provided to the defendant in that case sufficed for purposes of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1345(e) given that "[t]he violation report identified the criminal offense on which the trial court relied to revoke defendant's probation."4 Id . at 260, 753 S.E.2d at 724. On the other hand, there are also occasions when a mere statement of the probationer's alleged conduct does not unambiguously "point to a revocation-eligible violation." Moore , --- N.C. App. at ----, 795 S.E.2d at 600. In State v. Tindall , for example, the violation report "indicat[ed] that defendant had violated her probation by using illegal drugs ... and by failing to 'complete Crystal Lakes treatment program' as ordered." 227 N.C. App. at 184, 742 S.E.2d at 274. Unlike the allegations contained in the violation report at issue in Lee , the facts alleged in the violation report at issue in Tindall sufficed to allege both a violation of the condition of probation that the probationer "[c]ommit no criminal offense in any jurisdiction," N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1) (2013), and the condition that the probationer "[n]ot use, possess, or control any illegal drug or controlled substance unless it has been prescribed for him or her by a licensed physician and is in the original container with the prescription number affixed on it," id . § 15A-1343(b)(15) (2013). Obviously, a violation of the condition of probation set out in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1) is "revocation-eligible" while a violation of the condition of probation set out in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(15) is not. In light of that set of circumstances, I do not believe that the probationer in Tindall received an adequate "statement of the violations alleged" and conclude that the Court of Appeals did not err by finding the notice at issue in that case insufficient. Tindall , 227 N.C. App. at 187, 742 S.E.2d at 275.5 As a *558result, while I share the Court's discomfort with some of the language that the Court of Appeals used in its opinions in these decisions and do not believe that they should be understood as holding that, in each and every case, a violation notice fails to support the revocation **350of a probationer's probation unless it specifically and explicitly alleges a violation of a "revocation-eligible" condition of probation, I do believe that each of these cases was correctly decided on the facts and cannot, for that reason, join the Court's decision to overrule them.
Admittedly, the violation notice at issue in this case, unlike the violation notice at issue in Lee , does not make an explicit reference to an alleged violation of the condition of probation set out in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1). On the other hand, given the terms and conditions of defendant's probation, I am unable to understand, for the reasons stated by the Court, how the allegation that defendant had been charged with committing various criminal offenses could be understood as anything other than an allegation that he had violated the condition of probation that he "[c]ommit no criminal offense in any jurisdiction." N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1). In fact, as I read the briefs and record before us in this case, defendant does not seem to have had any doubt that the proceeding held in the trial court was focused upon the issue of whether he had violated the condition of probation set out in N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(b)(1). As a result, given that defendant had ample notice of the violation of the terms and conditions of probation that he was alleged to have committed and the effect of a determination that he had committed the alleged violation, I agree with both the Court and the majority in the Court of Appeals that the trial court's order revoking defendant's probation should be affirmed.
Justice HUDSON joins in this concurring opinion.