Characteristics of Community Service Programs and Probationers in Texas
Description:
As a criminal sanction, community service involves unpaid labor on the part of convicted criminal offenders. Community service was created as an alternative to incarceration for low-level offenders. It now appears, however, that community service is rarely used as a true alternative to prison, but rather as an added condition of probation. The body of research on community service in the United States is modest, so relatively little is known about its characteristics and administration. Data we…
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Date:
August 2002
Creator:
Roberts, Darrin David
Partner:
UNT Libraries