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What exactly is a community service order in Ireland?

What exactly is a community service order in Ireland?

Community Service Order: This is a community-based sanction imposed by a Judge as an alternative to a prison sentence of 12 months or less for persons aged 16 years and over. An approximate figure of €4.5 million being performed by offenders on Community Service and Community Return in 2014.

Is community service a deterrence?

Consequently, the deterrent effect of community service can be expected to be less strong than the deterrent effect of imprisonment. Therefore, deterrence theory leads to the hypothesis that community service will lead to higher post-sentencing recidivism rates than imprisonment.

What is a community service order UK?

You may get a community sentence if you’re convicted of a crime by a court but are not sent to prison. You may have to do unpaid work in your local community, like removing graffiti. This is called Community Payback. Community sentences can be given for crimes such as: damaging property.

What is a ordered community?

Court-ordered community service, also called community restitution, is a form of punishment that benefits the community that was harmed by the offender’s crime.

What crimes qualify for community service?

What crimes can lead to a community service order? Damaging property, petty theft, non-grievous assault, shoplifting, drink driving or small-scale benefit fraud can lead to community service orders.

What is a 12 month community order?

When a defendant fails without a reasonable excuse to carry out a community order requirement (such as failing without good reason to attend an Unpaid Work appointment), they will receive a warning stating that any further failure to comply within the next 12 months will mean the case will be brought back to court.

What happens if you break a community order?

Where a magistrates’ court is dealing with a breach of a community order imposed by the Crown Court, the magistrates’ court may impose a fine or more onerous requirements; otherwise it may commit the offender to custody, or release the offender on bail, until the offender can be brought or appear before the Crown Court …

What crimes get community service?

How serious is a community order?

A community order must not be imposed unless the offence is ‘serious enough to warrant such a sentence’. Where an offender is being sentenced for a non-imprisonable offence, there is no power to make a community order.

What is the minimum length of a community order?

The offender must consent to the order and the duration of this requirement is between six months and three years). An alcohol treatment requirement (the offender must attend treatment to reduce or eliminate dependency on alcohol.

What happens if you breach community service?

An offender may get a community sentence if they are convicted of an imprisonable crime by a court but are not sent to prison. This could be because, for example: the court thinks they are more likely to stop committing crime than if they go to prison.

What is the maximum length of a community order?

three years
The Community Order was introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and came into existence in April 2005. The maximum duration of a Community Order is three years (there is no minimum duration) and at least one requirement must be attached to the Order.

How long does community order stay on your record?

A community order or youth rehabilitation order which has no specific end date has a default rehabilitation period of two years from the date of conviction. Changes made in 2012/13 mean that all future community orders have an end date. These are only regarded as spent once they are paid in full.

How long can a community order last?

What are the requirements of a community order?

Suitable requirements might include:

  • Any appropriate rehabilitative requirement(s)
  • 80 – 150 hours of unpaid work.
  • Curfew requirement for example up to 16 hours per day for 2 – 3 months**
  • Exclusion requirement lasting in the region of 6 months.
  • Prohibited activity requirement.

How long does a community order stay on your record?

two years
A community order or youth rehabilitation order which has no specific end date has a default rehabilitation period of two years from the date of conviction. Changes made in 2012/13 mean that all future community orders have an end date. These are only regarded as spent once they are paid in full.

What happens at the end of a community order?

In the event of a breach of a community order requirement, the defendant will be returned to court and the custodial sentence must be activated unless it would be unjust in all the circumstances to do so.

What is the Children (Community Service Orders) Act 1987?

An Act with respect to the performance of community service work by children and other young persons who have been found guilty of criminal offences. This Act may be cited as the Children (Community Service Orders) Act 1987. (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.

How is a Community Service Order arranged?

Usually community service is arranged through Correctional Services, and a person subject to a community service order will have a community corrections officer assigned to them [Sentencing Act 2017 (SA) s 107 (1)].

When does a failure to comply with a Community Service Order?

(5) Section 24 (4) and (5) as inserted by the Sentencing Legislation Amendment Act 1997 apply to a failure to comply that occurs after the commencement of those subsections, but in respect of any children’s community service order in force at the time of the failure to comply, whenever the order was made.

How many hours of community service do I have to do?

An order for community service must not exceed a total of 300 hours, with a minimum requirement of 15 hours [ Sentencing Act 2017 (SA) s 105 (1) (a)].