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Community Service

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A sentencing option for persons convicted of crimes in which the court orders the defendant to perform a number of hours of unpaid work for the benefit of the public.

A person convicted of a criminal offense may be required to complete a sentence of community service directly or as an express condition of Probation. Typically, the community service will involve performance at a facility that has been authorized by the court or probation department. Community service is appropriate when it is reasonably designed to repair the harm caused by the offense.



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LANCASTER -- The city's takeover and expansion of the community service officer program is beginning to show results for improving service and easing sheriff's deputies' workloads, city and sheriff's officials said Monday.
COMMUNITY SERVED BY PROGRAM CSO PROJECT SHOWS RESULTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In response to growing obesity rates in the state, the Georgia Recreation and Park Association (GRPA) recently created and adopted a new resolution to offer healthy alternatives to children and families at community service agencies such as parks and recreation.
Georgia adopts healthy resolution by Parks & Recreation
The Community Service Self-Efficacy Scale (CSSES) measures the person's confidence in his or her own ability to make clinically significant contributions to the community through service.
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