Community sentences

• Community sentences


  This is used as an alternative to prison and is given for less serious crimes such as damage to property, assault or benefit fraud.
• 13 requirements

  There are 13 different requirements an offender must follow when serving a community sentence such as:

  • Up to 300 hours of unpaid work (e.g. removing graffiti) 
  • Keeping to a curfew 
  • Attending programmes like drug rehabilitation
  • They may also have restrictions on where they can go (e.g. electronic tagging)
• E.g Wayne Rooney

  after being caught drink-driving, was banned from driving for 2 years and given 100 hours of unpaid work (working with adults with learning difficulties in a garden centre) 
• E.G cantona

  • Had been arrested after kicking an opposition fan during a match.
  • Banned from playing for 8 months and completed 120 hours of community service coaching football to young children in Salford.
  • This is thought to be about 15 times cheaper than prison short prison sentences and more effective at reducing reoffending, but the public do not always see it as enough of a punishment.