Community service is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Performing community service is not the same as volunteering, since it is not always done voluntarily. It may be done for a variety of reasons: ==High school graduation and community work== Many educational jurisdictions in the United ...
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Service that is designed to assist in addressing community problems such as housing, poverty, government, recreation, employment, youth opportunities, transportation, health, and land use.
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In the UK penal system, former term for a
community punishment order, still employed in the USA. ...
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In the US penal system, unpaid work in the service of the community (aiding children, the elderly, or the disabled), performed by a convicted person by order of the court as...
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When a misdemeanour is punished by a prison sentence, the court may choose, instead of imprisonment, to order the convicted person to carry out unpaid work for a public corporate body or an accredited association, for a duration of between 40 and 210 hours. Whether handed down as the main sentence or as one of the terms of a suspended sentence, com...
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Helping elderly people and others in need.
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Unpaid work that benefits the community and that may be required of a convicted defendant as an alternative to a jail sentence.
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Sentencing option whereby offender performs volunteer work for government, non-profit or community-based organizations.
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[
n] - a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions 2. [n] - an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence
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noun an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence
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In the US penal system, unpaid work in the service of the community (aiding children, the elderly, or the disabled), performed by a convicted person by order of the court as an alternative to prison
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a punitive sentence that requires a convicted person to perform unpaid work for the community in lieu of imprisonment.
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